Sports
- John M. King, Mississippi College head football coach prior to George Bohler in 1925
- Johnny King (footballer born 1926) (1926–2010), English-born footballer who played for Leicester in the 1949 FA Cup Final
- Johnny King (footballer born 1932), English-born footballer who played for Stoke and Crewe in the 1950s and 60s
- John King (footballer born 1933) (1933–1982), Welsh international football goalkeeper who played for Swansea
- John King (footballer born 1938), English-born football wing half with Tranmere and Port Vale, who later managed Tranmere
- John King (athlete) (born 1963), English long jumper
- John King (cricketer) (1871–1946), English cricketer
- Bart King (1873–1965), American cricketer, real name John Barton King
- John William King (1908–1953), English cricketer and nephew of John King, the English cricketer
- John Paul King (born 1982), Irish hurler
- Johnny King (born 1943), Australian rugby league footballer
- John King (racing driver) (born 1988), American stock car racing driver
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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)
“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)
“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)