Sports
- Sam Jones (basketball) (born 1933), retired American professional basketball player
- Sam Jones (baseball) (1925–1971), known as "Toothpick Sam"
- Sam Jones (footballer) (born 1974), Australian rules footballer from Tasmania
- Sad Sam Jones (1892–1966), baseball player
- Sammy Jones (1861–1951), Australian cricketer
- Samuel Jones (athlete) (1880–1954), American Olympic athlete in the high jump
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)
“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)