Sports
- John Baird (American football), All-American football player
- John Baird (Australian footballer) (born 1980), Australian rules footballer
- John Baird (cyclist), former racing cyclist from New Zealand
- John Baird (footballer) (born 1985), Scottish footballer playing for Dundee F.C.
- John Campbell Baird, 19th century Scottish footballer
- John Washington Baird (born 1852), American chess master
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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)
“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)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)