Bill Veeck Quotes

Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They're great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don't like crowds that sit on their hands.

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.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

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 is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

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.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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

The We Shout, You Listen crowd

In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

The best thing for the fans is having a team with a chance to win. That's what everyone wants.

It's so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what's happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.

Anyone can enjoy a wrestling match, but it's how you feel about that person that takes it to another level.

The indie shows are tons of fun. And for the fans, having that up close and personal experience is so different to watching wrestling on television at home.

Mladenovic knows how to use the power of the crowd.

Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then ten very serious rock critics in the back of the room going, 'Uh-huh, I think we understand this.'

Philly fans are more emotional, but the Buffalo fans are a bigger crowd I think.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

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.

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

In the Premier League, we have to play a lot, and we always need the support of the fans.

The live events are more interactive for the fans. With TV, you have the cameras there, commercial breaks where the fans can tell there's a down moment. At the live events, it's non-stop. We get to play with the audience; the crowd gets to get involved a little more. It's a very intimate feel.