Sports
- C.K. Nayudu First Captain of Indian Cricket Team
- Buchi Babu Naidu- Father of Madras Cricket in Chennai
- Cotah Ramaswami- represented India in both International cricket & Tennis.
- Kodi Rammurthy Naidu - Bodybuilder and wrestler
- Neelapu Rami Reddy - Sprinter and athletics champion
- A. Ramana Rao - Volley Ball Player
- M. S. K. Prasad - Cricketer
- M. L. Jaisimha - Cricketer
- Shivlal Yadav - Cricketer
- Bharath Reddy - Test Cricketer (1978–1981)
- Karnam Malleswari - Olympic medalist in weight lifting
- Pullela Gopichand - 2002 All England Shuttle Badminton Champion
- Venugopal Rao - Cricketer
- Ambati Rayudu - Cricketer
- V. V. S. Laxman - Cricketer
- Venkatapathy Raju - Cricketer
- Rohit Sharma - Cricketer
- Mithali Raj - Woman Cricketer
- Vikash Dhorasoo - French international footballer, played for France in 2006 World Cup.
- Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis.
- Chetan Anand - Badminton champion
- Laxman Reddy - Body Building champion - Winner,Mr. World 2010
- Jwala Gutta - Badminton champion
- Saina Nehwal - Badmation champion
- Pendyala Harikrishna - Youngest Chess Grand Master
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“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)