Athletes
- Bob Charles (golfer), modern golf pro in New Zealand
- Daedra Charles, American basketball player
- David Atiba Charles, football player from Trinidad
- Ed Charles, former American baseball player
- Ezzard Charles, former world heavyweight champion
- Gary Charles, former British footballer
- John Charles (English footballer), English footballer
- John Charles (1931-2004), Welsh footballer
- Lorenzo Charles, American former college and professional basketball player
- Mel Charles, Welsh former professional footballer
- Ned Charles, Mauritian former football striker* Ron Charles (basketball), American basketball player
- Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee
- Tina Charles, US basketball player
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Famous quotes containing the word athletes:
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)