Sports
- Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
- Imre Bugár (1955) - ethnic Hungarian athlete
- Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
- Bohumil Golián (?) - volleyball-player
- Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
- Jozef Krnáč (1977) - judo
- Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989) - figure-skating
- Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
- Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
- Jack Quinn (1883-1946) - baseball player
- Richard Réti - Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster
- Jozef Sabovčík - figure-skating
- Peter Sagan (1990) - cyclist
- Alojz Sokol (Aloisius Szokol) (1871–1932) - athlete, pioneer of the Olympic movement in historic Hungary
- Anton Tkáč (1951) - cyclist
- Július Torma (1922–1991) - boxer
- Elmer Valo (1921–1998) - baseball player
- Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
- Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“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)