Sports
- Bill Wright (catcher), American baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals in 1887
- Bill Wright (coach), Tennessee Volunteers baseball head coach 1963−1981
- Bill Wright (outfielder) (born 1914), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
- Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
- William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), English cricketer
- William Wright (footballer) (born 1900), footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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 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)