Sports
- Bill Wilson (footballer) (1924–1969), Australian rules footballer
- Bill Wilson (pitcher) (1942–1993), Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher
- Bill Wilson (catcher) (1867–1924), MLB catcher
- Bill Wilson (outfielder) (born 1928), MLB outfielder
- Billy Wilson (rugby league) (1927–1993), Australian rugby league footballer
- Billy Wilson (American football) (1927–2009), NFL wide receiver
- William Wilson (aquatics) (1844–1912), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
- William Wilson (Australian sportsman) (1909–1976), Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
- William Wilson (footballer), English soccer player
- William Wilson (goalkeeper) (born 1921), Scottish football goalkeeper for Queen of the South F.C. and Clyde F.C.
- William George Wilson (1917–2007), Sports cinematographer
- Willie Wilson (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball outfielder
- Willie Wilson (footballer) (1941–2001), Scottish soccer player
- Willy Wilson (born 1980), Filipino basketball player
- Willy Wilson (baseball) (1884–1925), baseball player
- Mookie Wilson (William Hayward Wilson, born 1956), MLB outfielder
- Mutt Wilson (William Clarence Wilson, 1896–1962), MLB pitcher
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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)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)