Sport
- John Bennett (athlete) (born 1930), long jumper, Olympic silver medal winner (1956)
- John Bennett (coach), Canadian football
- John Bennett (Derbyshire cricketer) (1864–1928), English cricketer
- John Bennett (diver) (1959–2004), first scuba diver beyond 1,000 feet
- John Bennett (field hockey) (1885–1973), British Olympic field hockey player
- John Bennett (footballer) (born 1946), former professional footballer in England
- John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer) (1777–1857), cricketer
- John Bennett (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s for Great Britain, England, Rochdale Hornets, and Wigan
- John Bennett (hurler) (born 1934), Irish retired hurler
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)