I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans!
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.
Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
When I would go into Madison Square Garden, I wasn't the most popular guy. Madison Square Garden, there's 16,000 Puerto Ricans with knives and great radios and stuff.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
It's a big jealousy thing in Germany that you have from fans - not the hardcore fans, because they always stand behind their team.
I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.
In every city where there are two teams, the rivalry is very intense. Rome, Milan, everywhere - it's very strong.
Fans are allowed to have their own opinion, at the end of the day they can say whatever they want, but some of them, it's crazy. They just want their own team to win. I can understand that. But some of the things they say.
