Sports
- James Burke (boxer) (1809–1845), English boxer
- James Burke (cricketer) (born 1991), English cricketer
- James Burke (footballer), 19th-century football player
- James Burke (hurler), inter county senior hurler with Dublin
- Jamie Burke (born 1971), baseball player
- James Burke (baseball), American baseball player for the 1884 Boston Reds
- Jimmy Burke (baseball) (1874–1942), American baseball player
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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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)