Sports
- Jackie Pereira, Australian field hockey striker
- James Pereira, Brazilian boxer
- João José Pereira, Portuguese triathlete
- Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro Gomes, Portuguese football player
- Nuno Jorge Pereira Silva Valente, Portuguese football player
- Ricardo Pereira, Portuguese football player
- T. J. Pereira (born 1976), Brazilian jockey
- Thiago Pereira, Brazilian swimmer
- Vítor Melo Pereira, Portuguese football referee
- Mike Pereira, (NFL) Vice President of Officiating
- Maxi Pereira, Uruguayan football Player
- Alvaro Pereira, Uruguayan football Player
- Thissara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer
- Bob Pereyra (born 1963), Street Luge Racer
- Carlos Pereyra (born 1911), Argentine boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Darío Pereyra (born 1956), Uruguayan football player
- Gabriel Pereyra (born 1978), Argentine footballer playing in Mexico
- Guillermo Pereyra (born 1980), Argentine-Italian footballer
- Juan Pablo Pereyra (born 1984), Argentine footballer
- María del Pilar Pereyra (born 1978), Argentine swimmer
- Roberto Pereyra (born 1991), Argentine footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)