Sports
- Joe Johnson (snooker player) (born 1952), English former snooker player
- Joseph Johnson (cricketer) (1916–2011), English first-class cricketer
- Joe Lee Johnson (1929–2005), NASCAR driver
- Joe Johnson (baseball) (born 1961), American former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Joe Johnson (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
- Joe Johnson (footballer) (born 1920), Scottish footballer
- Joe Johnson (footballer born 1911) (1911–1983), England international footballer
- Joe Johnson (Australian footballer) (1883–?), Australian rules footballer
- Joe Johnson (offensive lineman) (born 1893)
- Joe Johnson (wide receiver) (born 1962), former American football wide receiver for the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings
- Joe Johnson (defensive end) (born 1972), former American football defensive end for the New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers
- Joe Johnson (running back) (born 1929), American football player for the Boston Patriots and Green Bay Packers
- Joe Johnson (American football coach) head college football coach at Pikeville College
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athleticsa complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and powerthe womens programs are just as doomed as the mens are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if thats the kind of success for womens 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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“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)