James Haskell Quotes

When you are playing in front of your own crowd, you want them to support you.

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb.

I'm a Saints guy, and I'm on the defensive side and I'm hearing the hell that the Saints fans are giving the opposing offenses and it's pretty tough. It's a huge challenge to manage the defense with that noise, but I'd rather them be loud and pumped up and going than quiet, because if they're quiet it means we're getting beat.

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

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

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

At Wembley, it's difficult for the fans to come there and make it your home. Sometimes the stadium wasn't full because the maximum on the capacity.

In Spain, they go to the stadium and treat it like going to the theatre. In England, they go to support their team, to scream and shout, and do everything they can. I love that.

The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.

Obviously, the big teams create the bigger atmosphere around the stadiums.

The crowd are more understanding at Anfield than at any other football ground.

Fans can't score a goal but they have energy.

The Arsenal fans are great; every week they are 60,000, and the away support is fantastic.

I still think, when you go to the Garden, it's a completely different feeling. The energy - there seems like there's just a consistent buzz the entire game.

It's amazing - you know, you just look up, and you say, 'Wow, that's amazing.' It's 25,000 people only on one side, so of course you enjoy it. Every time when you go on the pitch, it's just crazy. They know when we need some energy; they have a button, so it's perfect. But you feel it; you feel it, of course.

It's tough to get any win in the NBA, but when you're at home it gives you a push to get that win with your crowd behind you.

When people are booing at the stadium when they win, then it has nothing to do with the results. It is something to do with emotion and feelings, which is an important part of football. The relationship there has nothing to do with results.

Playing in front of your home crowd, they can almost be like the best sixth man in the league, especially being in Boston.

We need the fans to win games. We need the energy from them to win a lot of games and we need that every night, not just certain nights.

In Dortmund, the stadium is nearly full for the warm-up. They've always been there in their numbers, always backed the team.

In previous experiences of being in the All-Star Games, you know, seeing the hometown players and how the fans get behind the hometown players, it's always been a special moment just watching that from afar and being on the other side.

You don't have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.

Wrestling fans are usually pretty passionate, but Philly is one of the cities that takes that to a different level.