Sport
- Albert Azaryan, gymnast, Olympic champion, 1st person to do the Iron Cross, Crucifix, or Azarian Cross
- Arsen Galstyan, judoka, Olympic champion
- Garry Kasparov (Kasparyan), chess player World champion
- Tigran Petrosian, chess player World champion
- Nikita Simonian, footballer, VP of Russian Football Union
- Yurik Vardanian, weightlifter, Olympic champion, several world records
- Vladimir Yengibaryan, boxer, Olympic champion
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)