Sports
- John M. King, Mississippi College head football coach prior to George Bohler in 1925
- Johnny King (footballer born 1926) (1926–2010), English-born footballer who played for Leicester in the 1949 FA Cup Final
- Johnny King (footballer born 1932), English-born footballer who played for Stoke and Crewe in the 1950s and 60s
- John King (footballer born 1933) (1933–1982), Welsh international football goalkeeper who played for Swansea
- John King (footballer born 1938), English-born football wing half with Tranmere and Port Vale, who later managed Tranmere
- John King (athlete) (born 1963), English long jumper
- John King (cricketer) (1871–1946), English cricketer
- Bart King (1873–1965), American cricketer, real name John Barton King
- John William King (1908–1953), English cricketer and nephew of John King, the English cricketer
- John Paul King (born 1982), Irish hurler
- Johnny King (born 1943), Australian rugby league footballer
- John King (racing driver) (born 1988), American stock car racing driver
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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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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 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)
“...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)