Sports
See also: category:Iranian sportspeople- Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Adel Kolahkaj, footballer
- Alex Agase, American football player
- Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
- Ali Karimi, football player
- Ali Parvin, football player and coach
- Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
- Andre Agassi, tennis player – his father was Assyrian-Armenian
- Arash Miresmaili, Judo World Champion
- Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
- Behdad Salimi, weightlifter World Champion
- Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
- Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
- Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
- George Issabeg, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
- George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathlon
- Ghasem Dehnavi, footballer
- Ghasem Hadadifar, footballer
- Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004,
- Javad Nekounam, football player
- Khodadad Azizi, football player
- Kianoush Rostami, weightlifter, World Champion
- Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
- Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
- Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
- Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
- Rahman Rezaei, football player
- Rasoul Khadem, Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler
- Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
- Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
- Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
- Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
- Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
- Vahid Hashemian, football player
- Yossef Karami, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
- Yu Darvish, Iranian-Japanese baseball player
world record holder
- Andranik Teymourian, football player
- Fereydoon Zandi, football player
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hadi Saei, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
- Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
- Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
- Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
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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)
“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)
“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)