Sports
- Tatev Abrahamyan, chess player
- Fred Agabashian, professional racer
- Ben Agajanian, professional football player
- Andre Agassi, professional tennis player
- Christopher J.C. Agajanian, motorsports promoter
- Andy Bakjian, Hall of Fame track and field official and author on the subject
- Steve Bedrosian, 1987 Cy Young Award winner for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Zach Bogosian, professional ice hockey player
- Gokor Chivichyan, judoka
- Dave Coskunian, soccer player
- Vic Darchinyan, professional boxer
- Trent Edwards, professional football player
- Alecko Eskandarian, professional soccer player
- Andranik Eskandarian, soccer player
- Chuck Essegian, professional baseball player
- Manvel Gamburyan, mixed martial arts fighter
- Brian Goorjian, coach of Sydney Kings
- Frankie Kazarian, professional wrestler
- Tim Kurkjian, sports analyst on ESPN
- Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., former owner of the Boston Celtics and Memphis Rogues
- Pete Mangurian, offensive line coach of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Vanes Martirosyan, professional boxer
- Karo Parisyan, mixed martial arts fighter
- Ara Parseghian, Notre Dame head football coach
- Steve Sarkisian, University of Washington head football coach
- Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach most famous for his time at UNLV
- Mark Vartanian, professional wrestler
- Garo Yepremian, professional football placekicker
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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)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)