Sports
See also: List of players from Venezuela in Major League Baseball- Gustavo Avila, retired jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing
- Johnny Cecotto, Moto and race car driver
- Iván Palazzese, Moto race driver
- Bobby Abreu, Major League Baseball player
- Jimy Szymanski, tennis
- Luis Aparicio, retired Major League Baseball player, Hall of Fame member
- Juan Arango, soccer player
- Tony Armas, retired Major League Baseball player
- Tony Armas, Jr., Major League Baseball player
- Serge Blanco, Rugby Union player
- Miguel Cabrera, Major League Baseball player
- Miguel Cairo, Major League Baseball Player
- Alex Carrasquel, Major League Baseball player
- Alejandro Carrasquel, former Major League Baseball player
- Chico Carrasquel, Major League Baseball player
- Dave Concepción, retired Major League Baseball player
- Vic Davalillo, Major League Baseball player
- Pompeyo Davalillo, Major League Baseball player
- Bo Díaz, retired Major League Baseball player
- Luis "Lumumba" Estaba, world champion boxer
- Álvaro Espinoza, Major League Baseball player
- Andrés Galarraga, retired Major League Baseball player
- Betulio González, world champion boxer
- Carlos Guillén, Major League Baseball player
- Ozzie Guillén, Major League Baseball manager and former player
- Félix Hernández, Major League Baseball player
- Ramón Hernández, Major League Baseball player
- Carl Herrera, NBA player
- César Izturis, Major League Baseball player
- Wilfredo Ledezma, Major League Baseball player
- Jorge Linares, boxer, currently WBC world champion
- Jose Celestino Lopez, Major League Baseball player
- Pastor Maldonado, F1 driver
- Melvin Mora, Major League Baseball player
- Alejandro Moreno soccer player.
- Alexander Muñoz, boxer, currently WBA world champion
- Magglio Ordóñez, Major League Baseball player
- Yaxeni Oriquen, IFBB pro female bodybuilder & reigning Ms. Olympia
- Richard Paez, coach of the national soccer team
- Lorenzo Parra, boxer
- Nicolás Pereira, tennis player, ESPN commentator
- Chucho Ramos, Major League Baseball player
- José Rujano, cyclist
- Johan Santana, Major League Baseball player, two time Cy Young Award winner
- Manny Sarmiento, retired Major League Baseball player
- Giovanni Savarese, soccer player
- Luis Sojo Major League Baseball player and Minor League manager
- César Tovar, Major League Baseball player
- Manny Trillo, Major League Baseball player
- Ugueth Urbina, Major League Baseball player
- Edwin Valero, deceased boxer, super featherweight and lightweight world champion.
- Greivis Vásquez, NCAA basketball player
- Rafael Vidal, competitive swimmer
- Ernesto José Viso, IndyCar racing-car driver
- Omar Vizquel, Major League Baseball player
- Carlos Zambrano, Major League Baseball player
- Amleto Monacelli, renowned ten-pin bowler and owner of 19 titles on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.
- Ramon A. Dominguez, jockey competing in Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States
- Javier Castellano, jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing
- Eibar Coa, jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing
- Óscar Torres, professional basketball player
- Milka Duno, race car driver
- César Baena, cross-country skier
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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)
“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)