Sports
- Sam Jones (basketball) (born 1933), retired American professional basketball player
- Sam Jones (baseball) (1925–1971), known as "Toothpick Sam"
- Sam Jones (footballer) (born 1974), Australian rules footballer from Tasmania
- Sad Sam Jones (1892–1966), baseball player
- Sammy Jones (1861–1951), Australian cricketer
- Samuel Jones (athlete) (1880–1954), American Olympic athlete in the high jump
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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)
“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)