Will Leitch Quotes

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!

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance.

My favorite football team is the Atlanta Falcons. I love watching them although I have a love/hate relationship because they do make me angry and sick to my stomach at times.

The South Africa public are very passionate and they just care a lot for their team. So if something goes wrong, because they are so emotionally invested in it, they feel as though we are letting them down.

I grew up a Met fan.

In Korea, if a player doesn't play well, you would never criticise him, but in European countries fans criticise their own teams; sometimes they boo them off the pitch.

I hate losing more than I love winning.

I want Arsenal to want me. If they didn't want me, it would hurt.

When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.

Personally, I take it really seriously and it bothers me when I don't play well.

Growing up I was a Cleveland Browns fan and my mood would change based on how they were playing. If they were losing I wasn't as happy, I wasn't as excited, I was a little sad.

It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.