Sports
- John McCarthy (American football) (born 1916), professional football player in the National Football League
- John McCarthy (mixed martial arts) (born 1962), mixed martial arts referee
- Johnny McCarthy (born 1934), NBA player
- Johnny McCarthy (baseball) (1910–1973), Major League Baseball first baseman
- John McCarthy (Gaelic footballer), former Dublin Gaelic footballer
- John McCarthy (ice hockey) (born 1986), NHL player
- John McCarthy (athlete), Paralympic athlete from Ireland
- Two Australian rules footballers:
- John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer born 1967), former player with Fitzroy and North Melbourne
- John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer born 1989), former Port Adelaide and Collingwood player
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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)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)