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:
“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)
“...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)
“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)