Booing Quotes

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Gratitude, Cheer, People

  "King of the Hill". Kelli Anderson, Sports Illustrated, August 5, 2002.

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• We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

  Alastair Campbell

  Sports, Football, Fans

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

  Jenny Eclair

  Knives, Breakfast, Down And

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• Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

  Earl Weaver

  July, Worry, Fans

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hilarious, Cheer, Acceptance

  "King of the Hill". Sports Illustrated, August 5, 2002.

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• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

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• In fact, I learned on the Bill Maher show that I can survive the audience booing at me, the guests hating me, Sarah Silverman mocking me, that I can survive. That's a lesson right there for people on the right.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Hate, People, Lessons

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

  Alastair Campbell

  Way, Politician, Weak

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

  Jacques Plante

  Jobs, Mistake, Hockey

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• I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

  Andre Agassi

  Fall, Minutes, Feels

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.272, Vintage

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• I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Lovers

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• If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

  John Darnielle

  Real, Villain, Middle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

  Albert Belle

  Yards, Baltimore, Compliment

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• You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.

  David Beckham

  Jobs, Team, Hands

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• In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

  Josh Peck

  People, Laughing

  "Q&A: Drake Bell & Josh Peck". Interview with Maxine Shen, nypost.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something.

  David Bentley

  Nice, Mean, Bored

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• Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.

  David Letterman

  New York, Tired, Yankees

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• I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sorry, People, Upset

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• It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

  Allen West

  Nice, Upset, Would Be

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• The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Suffering, Ears, Fool

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• When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.

  Brad Stine

  Yelling, People, Drunk

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• You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Cheer, Gay, Iraq

  Remarks by the President at DNC Event in San Jose, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 26, 2011.

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• It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hurt, Children

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