Sports
- Baseball
- Johnny O'Brien (born 1930), 1950's baseball second baseman
- John O'Brien (second baseman) (1866–1913), baseball infielder
- Cinders O'Brien (John F. O'Brien, 1867–1892), baseball pitcher
- Football
- John O'Brien (Dublin Gaelic footballer), senior inter-county Gaelic footballer for Dublin and Round Towers, Clondalkin
- John O'Brien (Louth Gaelic footballer) (born 1985), Gaelic footballer for Louth
- John O'Brien (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
- John O'Brien (UCLA soccer) (born 1972), retired U.S. soccer defender
- Other
- John O'Brien (basketball) (1888–1967), basketball referee and executive
- John O'Brien (cricketer) (born 1961), former English cricketer
- John O'Brien (hurler) (born 1982), Irish hurler
- John O'Brien (outfielder) (1851–1914), outfielder
- John O'Brien (rower) (born 1927), New Zealand representative rower
- John O'Brien (tennis), Australian tennis player of the 1950s and 60s
- Ambrose O'Brien (1885–1968), founding owner of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)