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:
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“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–?)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)