Sports and Games
- James Thompson (fighter) (born 1978), professional mixed martial arts fighter from England
- James Thompson (chess player) (1804–1870), American chess master
- James Thompson (footballer) (1898–1984), English footballer, manager and scout
- James Thompson (racing driver) (born 1974), English auto racer
- James Thompson (rower) (born 1986), South African rower
- James Thompson (swimmer) (1906–1966), Canadian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics
- J. B. Thompson (James Bogne Thompson, 1829–1877), co-creator of the laws of Australian rules football
- Jimmy Thompson (footballer born 1899), English footballer
- Jimmy Thompson (footballer born 1935), English footballer
- Jimmy Thompson (rugby league) (born 1946), British rugby league footballer
- Jim Thompson (coach), (born 1949) founder and executive director of Positive Coaching Alliance and author
- Jim Thompson (powerboat racing) (born 1926), manager of three-time Harmsworth Trophy winner Miss Supertest III
- Jim Thompson (rugby union) (born 1984), Scottish rugby union player
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or games:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.