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:
“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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)