Sports
- Bill Cooper (American football) (born 1939), professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Bill Cooper (grappler) (born 1987), American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner
- Bill Cooper (hurler) (born 1987), Irish hurler
- William Cooper (cricketer) (1849–1939), Australian cricketer
- William Cooper (sailor) (1910–1968), Olympic gold medalist of 1932
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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)
“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)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)