Toby Alderweireld Quotes

At most grounds you're not particularly conscious of the crowd but in Cardiff, with the roof closed against a good Welsh team, the noise is impossible to ignore. It can be loud enough to put you off your game and the Welsh undoubtedly possess some of the most passionate fans in the world.

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

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

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.

Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.

It's always nice seeing a stadium when it's full, and as players, that's what we want to be playing in front of.

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

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.

The Cottage was one of my favourite stadiums to play in. It was such an intimate atmosphere, and I've just got so many great memories of playing there.

Loftus Road is a great place to play football. The fans get behind you, and it's a great atmosphere.

I'm grateful to play at Wembley - it is a very historical place - but it is not the same feeling as White Hart Lane.

Real Madrid's Bernabeu was an amazing stadium to play in. It was just on top of you, and such a big stadium.

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.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

The fans here are great. I think that energy is just going to carry over to how I play on the court and just give me a little boost of energy.

It's wonderful being out on that pitch, being able to play there, with the fans supporting us. It's hard to describe, to be honest, when the team is playing well, when the supporters are chanting and singing their songs, when they are really behind the team.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium I have ever played in. I enjoy every minute on its pitch.

After playing in England, going to a place where you have 40, 50 people at the stadium was no fun.