Pep Rally Quotes

It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It's a thing you're kind of born with or without.

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.

I recognize what [political] conventions are all about—a cross between a clambake and a pep rally.

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

I still remember going to school on game day with my high school jersey on.

I used to cheerlead back in high school.

There's nothing better than being head cheerleader, let me tell you.

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to the requirements of protocol, has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling. To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we’re there.”

I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

I'm the No. 1 cheerleader for the state of Iowa.

My cheerleader part in 'Fired Up!' is really funny.

If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

This small but seminal meeting in many ways epitomized the brazen yet banal nature of organized antiabortion extremism–a rah-rah atmosphere, like some perverse parody of a pep rally, in which threats of future violence were cloaked as free speech, and past criminal acts were celebrated as valid tools for intimidating fellow citizens. A fringe culture was coalescing.

I was the captain of the pompom squad but not the cheerleading squad. There's a difference. The Peary Poms were the best in the state.

They used to call me 'Touchdown T.' I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, 'I'm going to run for three touchdowns.' I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.