List of Panamanians - Sports

Sports

  • Felipe Baloy, soccer player
  • Leonardo Barker, professional football player
  • Reginald Beckford, sprinter
  • William Bedford, former basketball player
  • Juan Berenguer, professional baseball player
  • Rolando Blackman, former basketball player
  • Rod Carew, professional baseball player
  • Bruce Chen, professional baseball player
  • Roberto Corbin, soccer player
  • Eileen Coparropa, Olympic swimmer
  • Manuel Corpas, professional baseball player
  • Ed Cota, basketball player
  • Frank Davis, professional football player
  • Jorge Dely Valdés, soccer player
  • Einar Díaz, professional baseball player
  • Roberto Durán, world boxing champion
  • Rommel Fernández, soccer player
  • Gary Forbes, professional basketball player
  • Alfonso Frazer, world champion boxer
  • Rubén Garcés, former basketball player
  • Stuart Gray, professional basketball player
  • George Headley, cricket player
  • Leroy Jackson, professional basketball player
  • Roberto Kelly, baseball player
  • Kevin Kurányi,German soccer player
  • Lloyd La Beach, first Olympic medal winner from Panama
  • Bobby Lashley, professional wrestler
  • Carlos Lee, professional baseball player
  • Héctor López, professional baseball player
  • Jorge Luján, boxer
  • Ernesto Marcel, professional boxer
  • José Macías, professional baseball player
  • Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
  • Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
  • Omar Moreno, professional baseball player
  • Ben Oglivie, professional baseball player
  • Panama Al Brown, world boxing champion, first Hispanic world champion in history
  • Eusebio Pedroza, boxer
  • Jaime Penedo, soccer player
  • Laffit Pincay, Jr., horse jockey
  • Mariano Rivera, professional baseball player
  • Rubén Rivera, professional baseball player
  • Davis Romero, professional baseball player
  • Carlos Ruiz, professional baseball player
  • Olmedo Sáenz, professional baseball player
  • Irving Saladino, current World and Olympic champion
  • Manny Sanguillén, professional baseball player
  • Rennie Stennett, professional baseball player
  • Luis Tejada, soccer player
  • Oscar Willis Layne, cyclist
  • Roberto Vásquez, professional boxer
  • Hilario Zapata, professional boxer

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “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)

    “Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
    —Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (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)