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:
“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)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)