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:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“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)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)