Sports
- The Maroons, nickname for the successful and record-breaking Queensland state rugby league team
- Montreal Maroons, a professional ice hockey team from 1924 to 1938
- Toledo Maroons, an NFL team from 1922 to 1923
- Kenosha Maroons, an NFL team in 1924
- Pottsville Maroons, an NFL team from 1925 to 1928
- UP Fighting Maroons, the athletic teams of the University of the Philippines
- Chicago Maroons, the athletic teams of the University of Chicago
- Roanoke College Maroons, the athletic teams of Roanoke College
- Moline High School Maroons, the athletic teams of Moline High School
- Champaign Central High School's athletic teams
- Ridgewood High School (New Jersey)'s athletic teams
- Butte Central Catholic High School's athletic teams
- Blackwell High School (Oklahoma)'s athletic teams
- Gzira United Maltese Football Club
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)