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:
“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)
“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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)