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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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)