Sports
- John Barker (English footballer) (1948–2004), English football (soccer) player
- John Barker (Scottish footballer) (born 1869), Scottish football (soccer) player
- John Barker (Australian rules footballer) (born 1975), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions and Fitzroy
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“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)