Stadiums Quotes - Page 5

• Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

  CC Sabathia

  Names, Feelings, Chanting

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• I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

  Mark Teixeira

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Excited

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• Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.

  Fergus McCann

  Football, Book, Pride

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• I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Heart, World

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• The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

  Jason Whitlock

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Looks, Violence

  "Rosario Dawson Talks TRANCE, Working with Danny Boyle, Playing a Female at the Center of a Male Dominated Story & a Nude Scene with James McAvoy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

  Sid Bernstein

  People, Saws, Gross

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• We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Home, Special, Fans

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". Interview with Pedro Pinto, edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I'm not as anti-sports as I've led people to believe - I've been to a Giants game. I've been to Giants Stadium and I've watched games. I've watched lots of them, you know? I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

  Kevin Corrigan

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 2, 2010.

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shopping

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• I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

  Muriel Bowser

  Soccer, Support, Dollars

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• If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

  Ron Suskind

  Doors, Self, Guy

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• Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Government, Surveillance Cameras, Shopping

  "A Watchful State" by Jeffrey Rosen, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2001.

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• Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.

  Bud Adams

  Team, Thinking, Nba

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• The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Team, Important, Use

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• I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can shout anything you want. You can bellow at will, and nobody will bother you. I yell things like, 'My life sucks! Dan Quayle is a schmuck! If I don't have sex soon, I'm going to explode!' Parents turn to their kids as I leave the stadium and go, 'Hey, there goes a great fan.

  Lewis Black

  Sex, Kids, Winning

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• I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.

  Roger Federer

  Games, Tennis, Honor

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• I would love this place to be my garden. 
  (on Arsenal's old stadium)

  Thierry Henry

  Garden, England, Arsenal

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• I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, World, Rest Of Your Life

  "Joan Rivers: Why Johnny Carson 'Never Ever Spoke to Me Again'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 06, 2012.

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• Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

  Mary Karr

  Girl, Children, Yankee Stadium

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• When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it

  George Best

  Firsts, Fans

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• The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country, fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline... so many fans jumped on board with us, and I couldn't be more thankful.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Crazy, Coffee

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• To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Honest, Empty

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More" By Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

  Peter Golenbock

  Baseball, Running, New York

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