Sports
- Johnny Hayes (1886–1965), American marathon runner
- John Hayes (Australian footballer) (born 1939), former Fitzroy VFL captain
- John Hayes (cricketer) (1927–2007), New Zealand
- J. P. Hayes (born 1965), American golfer
- John Hayes (harness racer) (1917–1998), harness racing driver/trainer/owner
- John Hayes (rugby union) (born 1973), Irish prop forward
- John Hayes (Gaelic footballer), Irish Gaelic football player
- John Hayes (soccer) (born 1960), U.S. soccer player
- John Hayes (tennis), American tennis player, who was on the tour in the early 1980s
- John Hayes (baseball) (1855–1904), baseball player
- John Bouchier-Hayes (born 1944), Irish Olympic fencer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)