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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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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–?)
““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)