Sport
- Jackie Wood (1919–1993), real name Edward John Wood, footballer
- Jon Wood (born 1981), NASCAR driver
- John Wood (Kent cricketer, born 1745) (1745–1816), English cricketer
- John Wood (Surrey cricketer, born 1744) (1744–1793), English cricketer
- John Wood (cricketer, born 1970), English cricketer
- John Wood (racing driver) (born 1952), CART driver
- John Wood (English footballer), British footballer
- John Wood (Scottish footballer) (1894–1971), Scottish football forward
- John Wood (soccer), English footballer
- John Wood (canoer) (born 1950), Canadian Olympic flatwater canoer
- John Wood (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1980s for Great Britain, and Leigh
- John Wood (baseball) (1872–1929), 19th-century baseball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)