Sports
- Adam Yates (born 1983), English soccer player
- Frederick Yates (1884–1932), a chess master who won the British Championship six times
- Robert Yates (NASCAR) (born ca 1943, fl. 1961–2007), former owner of Yates Racing, NASCAR racing team
- Sean Yates (born 1960), English cyclist
- Dorian Yates (born 1962), professional British bodybuilder
- Simon Yates (mountaineer) (born 1963), English mountaineer
- Gary Yates (cricketer) (born 1967), Lancashire cricket player.
- Graeme Yates (cricketer) (born 1969), South Austrailian cricket player.
- Steve Yates (born 1970), English football soccer player
- Simon Yates (golfer) (born 1970), Scottish golfer
- Kevin Yates (born 1972), rugby union prop forward
- T.J. Yates American football player
- Tyler Yates (born 1977), major league baseball pitcher
- Billy Yates (American football) (born 1980), American Football player
- Steven Yates (born 1983), rugby union player from New Zealand
- Wayne Yates (born 1937), NBA player and college basketball coach
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“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)