Sports
- Johnny Hayes (1886–1965), American marathon runner
- John Hayes (Australian footballer) (born 1939), former Fitzroy VFL captain
- John Hayes (cricketer) (1927–2007), New Zealand
- J. P. Hayes (born 1965), American golfer
- John Hayes (harness racer) (1917–1998), harness racing driver/trainer/owner
- John Hayes (rugby union) (born 1973), Irish prop forward
- John Hayes (Gaelic footballer), Irish Gaelic football player
- John Hayes (soccer) (born 1960), U.S. soccer player
- John Hayes (tennis), American tennis player, who was on the tour in the early 1980s
- John Hayes (baseball) (1855–1904), baseball player
- John Bouchier-Hayes (born 1944), Irish Olympic fencer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)
“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)