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:
“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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (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)