Sports
- John Smith (cricketer, born 1833) (1833–1909), Lancashire and Yorkshire cricketer
- John Smith (cricketer, born 1834) (1834–?), Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven cricketer
- John Smith (cricketer, born 1835) (1835–1889), English cricketer
- John Smith (Derbyshire cricketer) (1841–1898), English cricketer
- John Smith (footballer born 1855) (1855–1937), Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s
- John Smith (shortstop), shortstop, 1873–1875
- John Sidney Smith (rugby union) (1860–?), Wales rugby union international
- John Smith (footballer born 1866) (1866–1911), former Scottish footballer who played as a striker
- John Smith (NL first baseman) (1858–1899), first baseman in 1882
- John Smith (Canadian rower) (1898–?), Canadian rower at the 1924 Olympics
- John Smith (South African rower) (born 1990), South African rower at the 2012 Olympics
- John "Clipper" Smith (1904–1973), American football player and coach
- John Smith (inside-left), English footballer in 1932–1933
- John Smith (footballer born 1921), English footballer
- John Burns Smith (1922–1974), New Zealand baker, rugby player, soldier and sportsman
- John Smith (cricketer, born 1924) (1924–1991), English cricketer
- John Smith (footballer born 1927), English footballer for Liverpool F.C.
- John Smith (1930s footballer), footballer of the 1930s for Gillingham F.C.
- John Smith (AL first baseman) (1906–1982), first baseman in 1931
- John Smith (businessman) (1920–1995), chairman of Liverpool F.C., 1973–1990
- John Smith (footballer) (1939–1988), West Ham
- John L. Smith (born 1948), American college football coach
- John Smith (American football) (born 1949), former New England Patriots kicker
- John Smith (athlete) (born 1950), former American sprint athlete and now coach
- J. T. Smith (John Thomas Smith, born 1955), former professional American football player
- John Smith (New Zealand cricketer) (born 1960), New Zealand cricketer also known as Campbell Smith
- John Smith (wrestler) (born 1965), American wrestler, two-time Olympic gold medalist
- John Smith (rugby league), New Zealand international
- John Smith (soccer), retired English football (soccer) striker
- John T. Smith, American professional wrestler in 1990s
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldnt tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didnt do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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 (15641616)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrants 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)