Sports
- John Cooper (American football) (born 1937), coach
- John Cooper (athlete) (1940–1974), British athlete
- John Cooper (basketball) (born 1969), head men's basketball coach at Miami of Ohio University
- John Cooper (tennis) (born 1946), Australian tennis player
- John Cooper (footballer) (born 1898), English footballer
- John Cooper (motorcyclist) (born 1938), British Grand Prix motorcycle racer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“...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)