Sports
- Will White (1854–1911), American baseball player
- William Edward White (1860–?), American baseball player, possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball
- William White (boxer), British boxer and Olympic competitor, see Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight
- William White (field hockey) (1920–1990), competitor in the 1948 Summer Olympics
- William White (American football) (born 1966), American football player
- William White (British Army officer) (1879–1951), English cricketer
- William White (cricketer, born 1920) (1920–1990), Scottish cricketer
- William White (athlete) (born 1994), Australian javelin thrower
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)