Sports
- Thomas Butler (athlete) (1871–?), British tug of war competitor
- Thomas Butler (footballer) (born 1981), Irish footballer
- Thomas Butler (bobsleigh), American bobsledder
- Tom Butler (footballer) (died 1923), English football player
- Tom Butler (hurler) (born 1902), Irish hurler
- Tommy Butler (hurler) (born 1951), Irish retired hurler
- Tommy Butler (footballer) (born 1918), retired English professional footballer
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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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)