Michael Wilbon Quotes

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.

I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.

I would have to say that because I've lived in so many cities, by no means do I feel it's fair to call myself a 'fan' of any particular teams. I've lived in New York for a long time, and I did this movie about the Yankees called '*61.' I found out a lot about the Yankees during that time, so I love the Yankees, I've watched the Yankees.

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.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

Local Nationalism

I'm a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I love the Jayhawks. But I live in L.A., so I'm a fan of the Dodgers.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

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.

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

I can't say I've always been a Miami Heat fan, but ever since I got down to Miami, I'm a fan of many Miami teams.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

I can't give up the allegiances I grew up with, given where I was born and where I grew up, but you won't see me at a Rutgers game rooting for somebody else. Let's put it that way.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

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

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.