Sports
- Rudi Ball, ice hockey player, right wing, Olympic bronze, world runner-up, bronze
- Gretel Bergmann, high jumper
- Hans Berliner, world postal chess champion
- Barney Dreyfuss, co-founder of the World Series
- Alfred Flatow, 3x Olympic gymnastics champion (parallel bars, team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver (horizontal bar)
- Gustav Felix Flatow, 2x Olympic gymnastics champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar)
- Gottfried Fuchs, soccer player, (German national team)
- Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympics
- Lilli Henoch, world records (discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay); shot by the Nazis in Latvia
- Bernhard Horwitz, chess player
- Herbert Klein, swimmer, Olympic bronze (200-m breaststroke); 3 world records
- Emanuel Lasker, world chess champion
- Henry Laskau, racewalker, won 42 national titles; Pan American champion; 4x Maccabiah champion
- Helene Mayer, foil fencer (Jewish father), Olympic champion
- Sarah Poewe, swimmer (Jewish mother), Olympic bronze (4x100 medley relay)
- Daniel Prenn, tennis player, highest world ranking # 6
- Siegbert Tarrasch, chess player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)