Sports
See also: List of players from Venezuela in Major League Baseball- Gustavo Avila, retired jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing
- Johnny Cecotto, Moto and race car driver
- Iván Palazzese, Moto race driver
- Bobby Abreu, Major League Baseball player
- Jimy Szymanski, tennis
- Luis Aparicio, retired Major League Baseball player, Hall of Fame member
- Juan Arango, soccer player
- Tony Armas, retired Major League Baseball player
- Tony Armas, Jr., Major League Baseball player
- Serge Blanco, Rugby Union player
- Miguel Cabrera, Major League Baseball player
- Miguel Cairo, Major League Baseball Player
- Alex Carrasquel, Major League Baseball player
- Alejandro Carrasquel, former Major League Baseball player
- Chico Carrasquel, Major League Baseball player
- Dave Concepción, retired Major League Baseball player
- Vic Davalillo, Major League Baseball player
- Pompeyo Davalillo, Major League Baseball player
- Bo Díaz, retired Major League Baseball player
- Luis "Lumumba" Estaba, world champion boxer
- Álvaro Espinoza, Major League Baseball player
- Andrés Galarraga, retired Major League Baseball player
- Betulio González, world champion boxer
- Carlos Guillén, Major League Baseball player
- Ozzie Guillén, Major League Baseball manager and former player
- Félix Hernández, Major League Baseball player
- Ramón Hernández, Major League Baseball player
- Carl Herrera, NBA player
- César Izturis, Major League Baseball player
- Wilfredo Ledezma, Major League Baseball player
- Jorge Linares, boxer, currently WBC world champion
- Jose Celestino Lopez, Major League Baseball player
- Pastor Maldonado, F1 driver
- Melvin Mora, Major League Baseball player
- Alejandro Moreno soccer player.
- Alexander Muñoz, boxer, currently WBA world champion
- Magglio Ordóñez, Major League Baseball player
- Yaxeni Oriquen, IFBB pro female bodybuilder & reigning Ms. Olympia
- Richard Paez, coach of the national soccer team
- Lorenzo Parra, boxer
- Nicolás Pereira, tennis player, ESPN commentator
- Chucho Ramos, Major League Baseball player
- José Rujano, cyclist
- Johan Santana, Major League Baseball player, two time Cy Young Award winner
- Manny Sarmiento, retired Major League Baseball player
- Giovanni Savarese, soccer player
- Luis Sojo Major League Baseball player and Minor League manager
- César Tovar, Major League Baseball player
- Manny Trillo, Major League Baseball player
- Ugueth Urbina, Major League Baseball player
- Edwin Valero, deceased boxer, super featherweight and lightweight world champion.
- Greivis Vásquez, NCAA basketball player
- Rafael Vidal, competitive swimmer
- Ernesto José Viso, IndyCar racing-car driver
- Omar Vizquel, Major League Baseball player
- Carlos Zambrano, Major League Baseball player
- Amleto Monacelli, renowned ten-pin bowler and owner of 19 titles on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.
- Ramon A. Dominguez, jockey competing in Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States
- Javier Castellano, jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing
- Eibar Coa, jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing
- Óscar Torres, professional basketball player
- Milka Duno, race car driver
- César Baena, cross-country skier
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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)