Sports
- John Wright (ice hockey) (born 1948), Canadian ice hockey player
- John Wright (cricketer) (born 1954), New Zealand cricketer, former coach of the Indian cricket team
- John "Rookie" Wright (born 1973), American handball player
- John Wright (boxer) (1929–2001), Olympic boxer and boxing referee
- John W. Wright, American college football coach
- John Wright (cricketer, born 1935), former English cricketer
- John K. Wright, head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds, 1986
- Johnny Wright (footballer) (born 1975), Northern Irish footballer
- Johnny Wright (baseball) (1919–1990), Negro League baseball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)