Rick Snyder Quotes

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Chicago is an amazing place for sports.

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses