Sports
- Álex Aguinaga - Soccer player
- Ivan Vallejo - Mountaineer
- Ulises de la Cruz - Soccer player
- Agustín Delgado - Soccer player
- Martha Fierro - Chess player
- Edison Mendez - Soccer player
- Iván Kaviedes - Soccer player
- Antonio Valencia - Soccer player
- Andrés Gómez - Tennis player
- Eduardo Hurtado - Soccer player
- Iván Hurtado - Soccer player
- Nicolás Lapentti - Tennis player
- Giovanni Lapentti - Tennis player
- Jefferson Pérez - Race walker
- Pancho Segura - Tennis player
- Alberto Spencer - Soccer player
- Hugo Savinovich - Professional Wrestler
- Byron Piedra - Athlete
- Silvio Guerra - Athlete
- Jorge Toro - Sand vball, co-ed softball, cornhole player
- Lawrie Sanchez - Soccer player
- Trotzky Yepez - Chess player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)