Paul Tagliabue Quotes

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

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.

You don't have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.

The Cubs - with their passionate fans, dedicated ownership, tradition, and World Series drought - represented the ultimate new challenge and the one team I could imagine working for after such a fulfilling Red Sox experience.

I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis.

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

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

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

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

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

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.

I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

People ask me all the time, 'Why did I move home?' As well as I can articulate it, that's why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.

I want to thank the people of New Orleans and south Louisiana. New Orleans is my hometown, and of course they support their own team, the Saints, but they also support their own, and that city and state have backed me from the start.

If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens themselves.

If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

I would love to play for Kerala because there is nothing like playing for a home team.