Sports
- For the Chairman of Celtic F.C see the above section
- John Reid (footballer) (born 1932), former Scottish footballer who played for Hamilton and Bradford
- John Richard Reid (born 1928), former captain of the New Zealand cricket team
- John A. Reid (born 1955), British jockey and president of the Jockeys Association
- John B. Reid, American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball
- John Fulton Reid (born 1956), New Zealand cricketer
- John Reid (sailor) (born 1919), American Olympic sailor
- John Reid (Australian footballer) (born 1953), former Australian rules footballer
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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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)