Sport
- William Murphy (boxer) (born 1904), Irish Olympic boxer
- William Murphy (footballer) (born 1974), Linfield footballer
- William Murphy (rugby union), rugby union player who represented Australia
- William Murphy (tennis) (1917–2005), American championship tennis player and coach
- Yale Murphy (William Henry Murphy, 1869–1906), former Fordham University football coach
- Bill Murphy (baseball) (born 1981), American baseball player
- Bill Murphy (footballer) (1921–2004), English footballer
- Billy Murphy (footballer) (1895–1962), English footballer
- Billy Murphy (outfielder) (born 1944), former Major League Baseball outfielder
- Billy J. Murphy (1921–2008), head football coach at the University of Memphis
- Torpedo Billy Murphy (1863–1939), featherweight boxer from New Zealand
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“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)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)