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:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)