Sports
- Benji Olson (born 1975), former National Football League (NFL) player
- Bob Olson, American collegiate football player
- Carl Bobo Olson, (1928–2002), American boxer
- Drew Olson (born 1983), NFL quarterback
- Greg Olson (baseball) (born 1960), Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher
- Gregg Olson (born 1966), MLB pitcher
- Karl Olson (born 1930), MLB outfielder
- Lisa Olson, American sportswriter
- Lute Olson (born 1934), former basketball coach
- Mark Olson (broadcaster), Canadian sports anchor in the 1970s
- Mark Olson (curler), Canadian curler and 1981 Brier champion
- Sasha Olson (born 1976), Canadian softball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)