Cameron Crowe Quotes

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.

The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.

I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psycho­logical apparatus of Americans.

"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

In America we have across the country, the entire world.

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?