Sport
- Skinny Johnson (William C. Johnson, 1911–1980), American basketball player
- Judy Johnson (William Julius Johnson, 1899–1989), American baseball player
- William Johnson (cricketer) (1884–1941), Australian cricketer
- William Johnson (cricketer, born 1962), English cricketer
- William "Hootie" Johnson (born 1931), American golfer
- William Johnson (handballer) (born 1953), American Olympic handball player
- William Johnson (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Wales, and Huddersfield
- William Johnson (swimmer) (born 1947), American freestyle swimmer at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)