Sports
- John Watson (cricketer) (1828–1920), Australian cricketer who made one appearance for Tasmania
- Sir John Watson (polo), British polo player
- John Watson (footballer), footballer for Chester City
- John Watson (footballer born 1877) (1877–?), Scottish association football player
- John Watson (Somerset cricketer) (1910–1980), English cricketer who made 19 appearances for Somerset
- John Fox Watson (1917–1976), believed to be the only Scottish football player in Real Madrid's history
- John Watson (racing driver) (born 1946), British Formula One driver
- John Watson (American football) (born 1949), former NFL offensive lineman
- John Watson (boxer) (born 1983), British lightweight boxer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)