Sports
- Charlie Jones (American football) (born 1972), American football player
- Charley Jones (1852–1911), U.S. baseball outfielder
- Charlie Jones (infielder) (1861–1922), baseball infielder
- Bumpus Jones (Charles Leander Jones, 1870–1938), 1890s baseball pitcher
- Charlie Jones (outfielder) (1876–1947), baseball outfielder
- Charles Jones (basketball, born 1957) known as "Gadget" Jones, U.S. basketball player with Washington Bullets (1985–93) and Houston Rockets
- Charles Jones (basketball, born 1962), U.S. basketball player whose teams included Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Bullets (1988–89)
- Charles Jones (basketball, born 1975), U.S. basketball player with Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Clippers
- Charles Jones (footballer born 1888) (1888–after 1909), English-born football outside left who played for Birmingham and Bristol Rovers
- Charlie Jones (footballer born 1899) (1899–1966), Welsh international footballer whose clubs included Oldham, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal
- Charlie Jones (footballer born 1911) (1911–1985), Welsh-born footballer who played for Tottenham and Southend in the 1930s
- Charles Wilson Jones (footballer) (1914–1986), Welsh international football centre forward who played for Wrexham and Birmingham
- Charles Jones (cricketer) (1902–1959), West Indian cricketer
- Charles Jones (cricketer, born 1853) (1853–1904), English cricketer
- Charlie Jones (sportscaster) (1930–2008), American sports announcer
- Charles Jones (sportsman) (born 1934), English cricketer and field hockey player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“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)
“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)