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 was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t 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 didn’t 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)
“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 (1672–1719)