In Sports
- Willie Russell (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer
- Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
- Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball
- Billy Russell (born 1959), footballer
- William Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer
- William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)