Thomas Menino Quotes

I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time.

Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team.

I am a huge Red Sox fan.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.

My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.