Sports
- Bill Wilson (footballer) (1924–1969), Australian rules footballer
- Bill Wilson (pitcher) (1942–1993), Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher
- Bill Wilson (catcher) (1867–1924), MLB catcher
- Bill Wilson (outfielder) (born 1928), MLB outfielder
- Billy Wilson (rugby league) (1927–1993), Australian rugby league footballer
- Billy Wilson (American football) (1927–2009), NFL wide receiver
- William Wilson (aquatics) (1844–1912), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
- William Wilson (Australian sportsman) (1909–1976), Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
- William Wilson (footballer), English soccer player
- William Wilson (goalkeeper) (born 1921), Scottish football goalkeeper for Queen of the South F.C. and Clyde F.C.
- William George Wilson (1917–2007), Sports cinematographer
- Willie Wilson (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball outfielder
- Willie Wilson (footballer) (1941–2001), Scottish soccer player
- Willy Wilson (born 1980), Filipino basketball player
- Willy Wilson (baseball) (1884–1925), baseball player
- Mookie Wilson (William Hayward Wilson, born 1956), MLB outfielder
- Mutt Wilson (William Clarence Wilson, 1896–1962), MLB pitcher
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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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)