Sports
- John Cooper (American football) (born 1937), coach
- John Cooper (athlete) (1940–1974), British athlete
- John Cooper (basketball) (born 1969), head men's basketball coach at Miami of Ohio University
- John Cooper (tennis) (born 1946), Australian tennis player
- John Cooper (footballer) (born 1898), English footballer
- John Cooper (motorcyclist) (born 1938), British Grand Prix motorcycle racer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)