Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

Betsey Johnson

I was a cheerleader for nine years!

Bette Davis

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Ashley Tisdale

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Bill Vaughan

That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.

Bill Vaughan

There are people in many other states who are cheering us.

Shane Doan

That was huge. Johnny's one of those guys that you really cheer for because he does so much for us every night.

That was fun. It was good to hear them cheer and it was a good way to go out.

That was something between me and the team. To have your teammates cheering me on like that, it means a lot.

We wanted to give those people in the shelters something to cheer about.

We have been waiting forever for this game. It's our job to come here and cheer on the team. If we leave and can still talk, we haven't done our job.

William Shakespeare

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

You can be cheerful around them, ... and try to help them and make them feel better any kind of way.

Mark Buehrle

I think I was more nervous yesterday sitting on the bench. Obviously, when I woke up this morning I was really nervous. Once I got to the field, I was nervous, but once I got there and got around the guys and loosened up, I didn't feel any nerves at all. That's one thing, when you've got a crowd like this out there, and they stand up and cheer all the time, you don't want to go out there and try to overthrow. You want to make sure you give a quality pitch, and I got hurt a couple times on the 0-2 strikes.

I thought it was Milwaukee fans making all of that noise. That's great that they were cheering for us. I am sure they won't be cheering for us (today).

Jim Haslett

I'm hoping there's 65,000 people that are cheering the Saints on and it's loud.

Bebe Neuwirth

That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn't normally get.

Becca Fitzpatrick

With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.

I wish I had another year with this program. But I know it's on the right track. I can see myself next year sitting on the couch in my old Gator uniform watching and cheering while they win championships. I know it's going to happen." ()

I was the No. 1 guy cheering for Todd,

Joe Horn

It felt like an away game. The crowd obviously was cheering for their home team. But that's irrelevant. We lost a football game. . . . I felt personally like we fed them on a platter, and they ate. . . . Regardless of where we're living, regardless of Hurricane Katrina, we lost. No excuses.

David Anderson

I still love the Trojans. Of course, I hated them for one game last year, but I now cheer for them.

It doesn't get more hostile than it was tonight. Their fans are loud and they cheer their team on. I only wish we could duplicate this environment at our place.

We hope the stands will be full of fans who are here cheering our team on,

Alex Johnson

While cheering for the big game can be a great way to express enthusiasm for your favorite team, you could be paying for this for days or weeks after the big event.

Unfortunately, that is the way things work out sometimes in our profession. You're not out there cheering for someone to get hurt, but the fact of the matter is that's how opportunities come about, and I was able to come in and do the job.

You do not be a victim of a gang rape and then go to a football game and cheer them on.

To have all those thousands cheering for us made it a lot easier. But we know we won't get anything like that tomorrow night.

Derek Jeter

We didn't really give them much to cheer about.

We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer for their clubs, to enjoy the (matches).

On game day, I'll be cheering for Florida, but if Iowa is playing somebody from the Big Ten, then I cheer for Iowa.

Jack Roush

On the face of it, I'm cheering for them for going out and finding something with the same parts the rest of us are running and making it work better, which they did,

Phil Jackson

I was surprised. I can hear the cheers too, but there were some boos. I think it was kind of retribution for what happened in Miami over Christmas. I think the Miami fans were so vocal over Kobe.