Sports
- John Burke (1900s pitcher) (1877–1950), U.S. baseball player for the New York Giants
- John Burke (1990s pitcher) (born 1970), U.S. baseball player for the Colorado Rockies and the University of Florida
- John Burke (American football) (born 1971), played for the New England Patriots, New York Jets and San Diego Chargers
- John Burke (footballer), Irish footballer from Tipperary
- John Burke (Irish footballer) (born 1956), Irish footballer from Dublin
- Johnny Burke (footballer) (1911–1987), Irish footballer
- John Burke (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s for Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, and Wakefield Trinity
- Jack Burke, Jr. (born 1923), full name John Burke, American golfer
- John P. Burke, President of Trek Bicycle Corporation
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)