Sports
- Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
- Imre Bugár (1955) - ethnic Hungarian athlete
- Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
- Bohumil Golián (?) - volleyball-player
- Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
- Jozef Krnáč (1977) - judo
- Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989) - figure-skating
- Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
- Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
- Jack Quinn (1883-1946) - baseball player
- Richard Réti - Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster
- Jozef Sabovčík - figure-skating
- Peter Sagan (1990) - cyclist
- Alojz Sokol (Aloisius Szokol) (1871–1932) - athlete, pioneer of the Olympic movement in historic Hungary
- Anton Tkáč (1951) - cyclist
- Július Torma (1922–1991) - boxer
- Elmer Valo (1921–1998) - baseball player
- Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
- Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t 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 didn’t 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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)