Sports
- Tom Murphy (American football) (born 1900), player in the National Football League
- Tom Murphy (athlete) (born 1935), American former middle distance runner
- Tom Murphy (baseball) (born 1945), former professional baseball pitcher
- Tommy Murphy (baseball) (born 1979), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Tom Murphy (chess player), homeless chess player in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.
- Tom Murphy (fighter) (born 1974), American mixed martial artist
- Thomas Murphy (footballer) (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
- Tom Murphy (footballer) (born 1991), English footballer for Farnborough
- Tommy Murphy (Gaelic footballer) (1921–1985), Gaelic footballer for County Laois, Ireland
- Tommy Murphy (snooker player)
- Tommy Murphy (soccer player), Irish soccer player during the 1960s and 1970s
- Tom Murphy (hurler) (born 1943), Irish retired hurler
- Torpedo Billy Murphy (Thomas William Murphy, 1863–1939), boxer from New Zealand
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)