Sports
- Ninos Abraham, Assyrian-American, USA based Middleweight
- Alex Agase, Assyrian-American, Top level American Football (Gridiron) player
- Lou Agase, Assyrian-American, Top level American Football (Gridiron) player
- Najah Ali, boxer
- Steven Beitashour, Assyrian currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.
- Sami Boudakh, Assyrian USA based Soccer player
- Ashour Esho, Assyrian-American Boxer
- Falah Hassan, footballer
- Joseph Ashur Lazarus, Assyrian-American Boxer, USA based Bantamweight, boxed in 1924 Olympics
- Justin Meram, Assyrian USA based Soccer player
- Sammy Merza, Assyrian-American Boxer, USA based Middleweight
- Michael Shabaz, Assyrian American Tennis player
- Eddie Younan, Assyrian American Boxer
- Tom Younan
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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)
“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)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)