Sports
- Jack Murray (fl. 1935–1949), Australian Rules footballer
- John Murray (boxer) (born 1984), lightweight English boxer
- John Murray (cricketer) (born 1935), English cricketer
- John Murray (footballer) (fl. 1890s), Irish footballer
- John Murray (ice hockey b. 1924), British ice hockey player
- John Murray (ice hockey b. 1987), American ice hockey player
- John Murray (English footballer) (born 1948), retired English professional footballer
- John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born 1966), English broadcaster for BBC Radio 5 Live
- Johnny Murray (1898–1954), Irish footballer during the 1920s
- Jon Murray (fl. 2000s), head coach of Texas Tech cross country teams
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)
“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)