Sports
- John G. Griffith (c. 1878–?), American football, basketball, and baseball coach at University of Idaho, University of Iowa, Oklahoma A&M University, New Mexico A&M
- John L. Griffith (1877–1944), American football, basketball, baseball, and track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator, first commissioner of the Big Ten Conference
- Johnny Griffith (coach) (1924–2003), American football coach at South Georgia College and the University of Georgia
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)