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:
“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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“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)