Troy Aikman Quotes

I love this city and the Chicago fans.

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

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

Do I want to be in St. Louis forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in St. Louis, and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 million or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money.

I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

There are definitely die-hard fans. That's one thing about people from Brooklyn: they're very loyal, die-hard, believe in their team.

I got love for my Philly people. Those fans are about as crazy as you'll find anywhere.

Everybody sees the Bills fans and how crazy they can be. But they use that craziness for good.

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

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

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.

People are proud of their players.

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.

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.

I think people want the Cubs to succeed, and by extension, they want people associated with the Cubs to succeed.

I loved the fans here in Charlotte. They were very basketball-educated, very supportive of the team.

Chelsea's fans love me a lot, even more than in Atletico. Figure that!

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.

Cleveland fans are great. They really do support their team, and they back them up no matter what.

The Lakers have been part of the process of revitalizing downtown L.A. That's what my dad's passion was. He loved to win, but he loved this city. He wanted this city to be proud of its team.

Before I was 'the captain' with the label - because essentially, that's all it is - I was a player, and before that, I was a fan of the game, fan of the team.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.