Rachel Nichols Quotes

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

I was actually a Cowboys fan.

This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

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?

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

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

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.

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.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

When I talk about the Spurs in different states, people don't get it. But it's a cool team to root for. I've been a fan since I was young.

I'm a LeBron guy, so anywhere he goes that's my team.

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

I don't really have a team that I root for.

I'm a Detroit fan in everything pro and I'm a Notre Dame fan in college.

If you're not a Duke fan, you're not going to like me.

I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days.

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.