Sports
- Hank Aaron (2002)
- Muhammad Ali (2005)
- Arthur Ashe (1993, posthumously)
- Earl Blaik (1986)
- Paul "Bear" Bryant (1983, posthumously)
- Roberto Clemente (2003, posthumously)
- Joe DiMaggio (1977)
- Billie Jean King (2009)
- Robert J. H. Kiphuth (1963)
- Stan Musial (2011)
- Jack Nicklaus (2005)
- Buck O'Neil (2006)
- Jesse Owens (1977)
- Arnold Palmer (2004)
- Richard Petty (1992)
- Frank Robinson (2005)
- Jackie Robinson (March 26, 1984, posthumously)
- Bill Russell (2011)
- Pat Summitt (2012)
- Ted Williams (1991)
- John Wooden (2003)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)