Sports
- John Cooper (American football) (born 1937), coach
- John Cooper (athlete) (1940–1974), British athlete
- John Cooper (basketball) (born 1969), head men's basketball coach at Miami of Ohio University
- John Cooper (tennis) (born 1946), Australian tennis player
- John Cooper (footballer) (born 1898), English footballer
- John Cooper (motorcyclist) (born 1938), British Grand Prix motorcycle racer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)