Sports
- William Digby Owen (1857–1901), Oswestry F.C. and Wales international footballer
- William O. Owen (born circa 1859) who climbed the true summit of Grand Teton in 1898
- William Pierce Owen (1860–1937), Bangor F.C. and Wales international footballer
- William Owen (footballer born 1862) (died 1946), Chirk F.C. and Wales international footballer
- William Owen (footballer born 1885), footballer who played for Stoke
- William Owen (footballer born 1906) (died after 1930), English football goalkeeper with Birmingham, Fulham and Coventry City
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)