Sports
- Bill Anderson (1880s pitcher) (1865–1936), Major League Baseball player
- Bill Anderson (1920s pitcher) (1895–1983), Major League Baseball player
- Bill Anderson (American football coach), college football head coach at Howard Payne University
- Bill Anderson (footballer), manager of Football League side Lincoln City, 1946–1965
- Bill Anderson (American football) (born 1936), American football player
- Bill Anderson (strongman) (born 1937), Scottish sportsman
- Red Anderson (ice hockey) (Bill Anderson, 1912–1991), ice hockey player
- William Anderson (18th-century cricketer), mid-18th century English cricketer
- William Anderson (cricketer born 1859) (1859–1943), Olympic silver medal-winning cricketer
- William Anderson (cricketer born 1871) (1871–1948), cricketer
- William Anderson (cricketer born 1909) (1909–1975), first class cricketer
- William Anderson (cricket umpire) (1910–1975), Test match umpire in two games
- William Anderson (cyclist), Canadian Olympic cyclist
- William Anderson (footballer), English footballer, 1883 FA Cup Final winner with Old Etonians
- William Anderson (Scottish footballer), 1885 FA Cup Finalist with Queen's Park in 1884 and 1885 and Scotland international
- William Anderson (ice hockey) (1901–1983), British ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics
- William Anderson (Scottish cricketer) (1894–1973), Scottish cricketer from Fife
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“...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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)