Sports
- Adam Yates (born 1983), English soccer player
- Frederick Yates (1884–1932), a chess master who won the British Championship six times
- Robert Yates (NASCAR) (born ca 1943, fl. 1961–2007), former owner of Yates Racing, NASCAR racing team
- Sean Yates (born 1960), English cyclist
- Dorian Yates (born 1962), professional British bodybuilder
- Simon Yates (mountaineer) (born 1963), English mountaineer
- Gary Yates (cricketer) (born 1967), Lancashire cricket player.
- Graeme Yates (cricketer) (born 1969), South Austrailian cricket player.
- Steve Yates (born 1970), English football soccer player
- Simon Yates (golfer) (born 1970), Scottish golfer
- Kevin Yates (born 1972), rugby union prop forward
- T.J. Yates American football player
- Tyler Yates (born 1977), major league baseball pitcher
- Billy Yates (American football) (born 1980), American Football player
- Steven Yates (born 1983), rugby union player from New Zealand
- Wayne Yates (born 1937), NBA player and college basketball coach
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)