Sports Spectators Quotes

My favorite sport to watch is basketball. To play? golf, but I wish I was much better.

Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

Not everybody's a baseball fan.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.

I don't want to sound too critical, but a lot of fans at some grounds I go to have got cameras in their hands, taking pictures of anything rather than generating any atmosphere during the game.

The fans pay good money to watch their team, so they are entitled to their opinion.

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.