Sports
- John Martin (American football), American football player and coach
- John Martin (baseball) (born 1956), American baseball pitcher
- John Martin (cricketer, born 1867) (1867–1942), played for MCC and Devon
- John Martin (cricketer, born 1941), played for Oxford University, Somerset, Oxfordshire and Devon
- John Martin (English footballer) (born 1981), currently without a club
- John Martin (footballer born 1958), Scottish goalkeeper of Airdrieonians F.C.
- John Martin (footballer born 1979), Scottish footballer, see 1997–98 Hibernian F.C. season
- John Martin (Irish footballer) (born 1979), midfielder
- John Martin (American racing driver) (born 1939), American Indy 500 and Trans-Am driver
- John Martin (Australian racing driver) (born 1984), Australian racing driver in Formula Ford Australia and British F3
- John A Martin (born 1948), English rugby league player
- J. D. Martin (John Dale Martin, born 1983), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Johnny Martin (John Wesley Martin, 1931–1992), Australian cricketer
- John Alan Martin (English footballer) (1923–2004), English soccer player
- Pepper Martin (Johnny Martin, 1904–1965), American baseball player
- John Martin, Australian Paralympian
- John Martin (sport shooter), British Olympic sport shooter
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)