Sport
- William Murphy (boxer) (born 1904), Irish Olympic boxer
- William Murphy (footballer) (born 1974), Linfield footballer
- William Murphy (rugby union), rugby union player who represented Australia
- William Murphy (tennis) (1917–2005), American championship tennis player and coach
- Yale Murphy (William Henry Murphy, 1869–1906), former Fordham University football coach
- Bill Murphy (baseball) (born 1981), American baseball player
- Bill Murphy (footballer) (1921–2004), English footballer
- Billy Murphy (footballer) (1895–1962), English footballer
- Billy Murphy (outfielder) (born 1944), former Major League Baseball outfielder
- Billy J. Murphy (1921–2008), head football coach at the University of Memphis
- Torpedo Billy Murphy (1863–1939), featherweight boxer from New Zealand
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)