Sports
- Neil Smith (American football) (born 1966), former football player in the National Football League
- Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1967), English cricketer
- Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1949) (1949–2003), first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire and Essex
- Neil Smith (footballer) (born 1971), former professional footballer, currently a coach at Croydon Athletic
- Neil Smith (ice hockey) (born 1955), former general manager of the New York Rangers and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s 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)