Serge Schmemann Quotes

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.

I can't root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.

I would love to play for Kerala because there is nothing like playing for a home team.

Arkansas is very intriguing to me because it is the only show in the state. Obviously, without a professional team and to have the only Division I football team playing at the level that it's at, it kind of draws unified support throughout the whole state. When you've got that, it's something special.

I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

There are definitely die-hard fans. That's one thing about people from Brooklyn: they're very loyal, die-hard, believe in their team.

Everyone's entitled to be a fan of team and to support his side.

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.

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Cowboys have always been my team.

Obviously, I grew up in Barcelona, and when I watch them play I want them to win. The team are always going to be in my heart.

One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was like my childhood home and my second home.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.