Sports
- William Wood (wrestler) (born 1888), British wrestler
- William Wood (rower) (1899–1969), Canadian rower and Olympic silver medalist
- William Wood (footballer born 1900), footballer who played for Aberdare Athletic and Stoke
- William Wood (footballer born 1910), English professional footballer who played as a defender
- William Wood (athlete) (1881–1940), Canadian track and field athlete
- William H. Wood (c. 1900–1988), college football coach
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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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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)