Sport
- John Bennett (athlete) (born 1930), long jumper, Olympic silver medal winner (1956)
- John Bennett (coach), Canadian football
- John Bennett (Derbyshire cricketer) (1864–1928), English cricketer
- John Bennett (diver) (1959–2004), first scuba diver beyond 1,000 feet
- John Bennett (field hockey) (1885–1973), British Olympic field hockey player
- John Bennett (footballer) (born 1946), former professional footballer in England
- John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer) (1777–1857), cricketer
- John Bennett (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s for Great Britain, England, Rochdale Hornets, and Wigan
- John Bennett (hurler) (born 1934), Irish retired hurler
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)