Sports
- John Wright (ice hockey) (born 1948), Canadian ice hockey player
- John Wright (cricketer) (born 1954), New Zealand cricketer, former coach of the Indian cricket team
- John "Rookie" Wright (born 1973), American handball player
- John Wright (boxer) (1929–2001), Olympic boxer and boxing referee
- John W. Wright, American college football coach
- John Wright (cricketer, born 1935), former English cricketer
- John K. Wright, head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds, 1986
- Johnny Wright (footballer) (born 1975), Northern Irish footballer
- Johnny Wright (baseball) (1919–1990), Negro League baseball player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)