Sports
- Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
- Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sir Chris Hoy, the most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
- Andy Irvine, rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Michael Jamieson, 200m breaststroke Olympic silver medallist
- Eric Liddell, men's Olympic 400m gold medallist, and Scottish Rugby international
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
- Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
- Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldnt tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didnt do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athleticsa complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and powerthe womens programs are just as doomed as the mens are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if thats the kind of success for womens sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)