In Sports
- Final score in the game Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points (with the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962) was Warriors 169 - New York Knicks 147
- In the 1990s, Emmitt Smith had 136 rushing touchdowns, and 11 receiving, for a total of 147 touchdowns
- The New York Giants baseball team hit 147 home runs in 1949
- Lee May hit 147 home runs in seven seasons with the Cincinnati Reds from 1965 to 1971
- MLB players who had 147 home runs in a career include:
- Leon Durham
- Ruppert Jones
- Gene Woodling
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)