Nate Torrence Quotes

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.

In every city where there are two teams, the rivalry is very intense. Rome, Milan, everywhere - it's very strong.

In Chicago, they die for their teams.

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

I'm not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I'm a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

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?

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

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 loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.

Once you own a team for as many years as I have, and you root for that team for that period of time, you've got rooting for the Blazers in your blood, and the Sonics are one of our arch-competitors.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

Chiefs fans know how I feel about them and so do the Atlanta Falcons fans.

Everyone goes on about Manchester United all the time, but they're just another team in the final. I don't see it as anything special.

I'd like Everton to be known as the better team in Liverpool.

I love this city and the Chicago fans.

I came to Philly not only because of the quality of the team and the organization, but also the fans, the passion - it's really palpable in that city.

I watched the Bulls growing up. To be part of an organization like that is great.

I'm not an Arsenal fan. I am not from London.

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.