Sports
- Neil Smith (American football) (born 1966), former football player in the National Football League
- Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1967), English cricketer
- Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1949) (1949–2003), first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire and Essex
- Neil Smith (footballer) (born 1971), former professional footballer, currently a coach at Croydon Athletic
- Neil Smith (ice hockey) (born 1955), former general manager of the New York Rangers and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)