Sports
- George Thomas (rugby player) (1857–1934), rugby union footballer of the 1880s and '90s for Wales, and Newport (see List of Wales international footballers)
- George C. Thomas, Jr. (1874-1932), American golf course designer
- George Thomas (rugby) (1881–1916), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1900s and '10s for Pontnewydd (RU), Newport, Great Britain (RL), Wales, and Warrington
- Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet (1881–1972), British chess and badminton player
- George Thomas (American football) (1928–1989), American football halfback and defensive back
- George Thomas (footballer born 1930), Welsh footballer
- George Thomas (baseball) (born 1937), American baseball player
- George Thomas (badminton) (born 1966), Indian badminton player
- George Thomas (canoeist), canoer from New Zealand
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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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)