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:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“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)
“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)