Sports
- Bobby Atherton, Welsh international footballer
- Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
- Fred Blackburn (footballer), English footballer and coach
- Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman
- Dan Devine, American football coach
- Joe Gold, bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym
- Cornelius Johnson, American Olympic medal-winning high jumper
- Charlie Keller, left fielder in Major League Baseball
- Frank Sinkwich, American footballer, won 1942 Heisman Trophy, 1944 NFL MVP
- Edwin Stratton, a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK
- Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) Olympic champion and Italian admiral
- Jim Thorpe, American Olympic athlete
- Henk de Velde, Dutch seafarer known for his long solo-voyages around the world
- Matthew Webb, first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aid
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“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)