Sports
- John Blake (American football) (born 1961), American football coach
- John Blake (fencer) (1874–1950), British Olympic fencer
- John Blake (rugby union) (1933–1982), Bristol rugby player and teacher
- John Blake (hurler) (born 1957), Irish retired hurler
- John Blake (cricketer) (1917–1944), English cricketer
- Jere Blake (John Blake, 1875–1933), Wales rugby player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (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)
“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)