Sports
- Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
- Austin Matthews, cricketer who played for Northamptonshire, Glamorgan and England
- Brenda Matthews, New Zealand sprinter
- Bruce Matthews (American football) (born 1961), American football offensive lineman and coach; brother of Clay Matthews, Jr., son of Clay, Sr., and uncle of Casey and Clay III (all listed below)
- Casey Matthews (born 1989), American football linebacker
- Christopher Matthews (cricketer), former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1986 to 1988
- Clay Matthews, Sr. (born 1928), American football offensive lineman
- Clay Matthews, Jr. (born 1956), American football linebacker
- Clay Matthews III (born 1986), American football linebacker
- Craig Matthews, South African cricketer who played in eighteen Tests and fifty six ODIs from 1991 to 1997
- Darren Matthews (born 1968), English professional wrestler better known as William Regal
- Denny Matthews, American sportscaster
- Don Matthews, head coach in the Canadian Football League
- Gary Matthews, outfielder in Major League Baseball
- Gary Matthews, Jr., Major League Baseball player with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
- Greg Matthews, New South Wales and Australian cricketer who bowled off spin
- Jimmy Matthews, Australian Test cricketer
- Ken Matthews, English race walker
- Leigh Matthews, Australian Rules football player
- Mickey Matthews, the head football coach at James Madison University
- Mike Matthews, Major League Baseball pitcher who was born on October 24, 1973 in Woodbridge,
- Morgan Matthews, American figure skater
- Robert William Matthews, Welsh footballer
- Shane Matthews, quarterback in the National Football League
- Stanley Matthews (1915–2000), English footballer
- Todd Matthews-Jouda, hurdling athlete
- Vincent Matthews (b. 1947), American athlete
- Will Matthews (rugby union), rugby union footballer
- William Clarence Matthews (1877–1928), star Baseball player at Harvard and political activist.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“...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)
“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)