Sports
- Biddy Anderson (John Henry Anderson, 1874–1926), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match
- John Anderson (American football) (born 1956), Green Bay Packers linebacker
- John A. Anderson (American football) (1933–1998), college football coach
- John Anderson (athlete) (1907–1948), American Olympic discus thrower
- John Anderson (baseball coach) (born 1955), American baseball coach
- John Anderson (canoer) (1924–2001), American sprint canoer
- John Anderson (footballer born 1878) (1878–?), English footballer, who played for Woolwich Arsenal and Portsmouth
- John Anderson (footballer born 1879) (1879–?), Scottish footballer, who played for Chesterfield Town
- John Anderson (footballer born 1915) (1915–1987), Scottish footballer, scorer for Portsmouth in the 1939 FA Cup Final
- John Anderson (footballer born 1921) (1921–2006), English footballer, scorer for Manchester United in the 1948 FA Cup Final
- John Anderson (footballer born 1928), Scottish footballer who played as an inside forward
- John Anderson (footballer born 1929) (1929–2001), Scottish footballer, who most notably played for Leicester City
- John Anderson (footballer born 1937), Scottish born footballer, who played for Stoke City and Australia
- John Anderson (footballer born 1972), Scottish footballer, best known for playing for Greenock Morton
- John Anderson (hurler) (born 1978), Irish hurler
- John Anderson (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian ice hockey player
- John Anderson (Irish footballer) (born 1959), Irish footballer, who notably played for Newcastle United
- John Anderson (outfielder) (1873–1949), American baseball player
- John Anderson (pitcher) (born 1932), American baseball player
- John Anderson (racing driver) (1944–1986), American driver, who is known for a crash at Daytona in 1981
- John Anderson (sailor) (born 1939), Australian sailor
- John Anderson (sportscaster) (born 1965), American television sports journalist and co-host of Wipeout
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)