Stadiums Quotes

• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Winning

  Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

  Blanka Vlasic

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Running, Marathon, Inspirational Running

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• If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

  Irwin Shaw

  Football, Gun, Player

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• I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.

  Wright Thompson

  Tired, Lsu, Next Week

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There's no better feeling than sitting on the team bus travelling to the Millennium Stadium knowing that the team will be playing in front of 74,500 people. You're driven through the crowds where you see the smiles on people's faces and I get a huge buzz out of that.

  Warren Gatland

  Team, Knowing, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

  Bill Toomey

  Careers, Empty

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• 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.

  Jock Stein

  Football, Fans, Pay

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• Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Home, Eye, Degrees

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• If I go to a match it doesn't mean I want to buy the stadium or the club.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Mean, Clubs

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• So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

  Jerry Garcia

  Play, Want, Wells

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• The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

  Jane Addams

  Play, Cities, Temples

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

  Jello Biafra

  Football, Golf, People

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• I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.

  Jules Ladoumegue

  War, Flames, Bird

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• When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

  Jesse Ventura

  Games, Library, Pay

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• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  World, Levels, Cups

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• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Heart, Germany, World

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• I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

  John Madden

  Feelings, Soldier, Special

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it's Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America.

  Les Miles

  Cheer, Night, Lsu

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• In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."
  
  (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)

  T.C. Boyle

  Football, Cheer, Believe

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• Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

  Mike Gordon

  Country, Nice, Opportunity

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• You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

  Robert Plant

  Years, Darkness, Feels

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