Nemanja Matic Quotes

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.

I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

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

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

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

A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.

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

I kind of press pause when it's a derby, and the season doesn't matter to me anymore; it's all about the derby.

It is exciting to have two sports teams close to where you live.

It doesn't matter how young or old you are, and whatever jersey you wear, you realise the derby games prick up the hairs on the backs of people's necks.

Derbies are always special, special games and moments for the city and the people.

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it's the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It's positive and unique when you have that.

There's always something special playing in your home country in front of your home audience.

I want to win championships, I want to win ball games, and where else is a better place to do it then your city?

I just like going against the Redskins, I guess.

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.

There is a different sort of edge when you come up against England. Even when it's a friendly game you still get that fear in you that if you get beat it won't be good but if you win it will be the best thing going.

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

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa.