Armand Deutsch Quotes

I think people in China like to see R&F and how we play. I think it's a very important part of football that the fans enjoy coming to the game.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform.

My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.

We should be able to have a little more fun. I think it's entertainment to the fans.

We want our teams to be able to entertain the supporters - they're such an important part of the industry, sometimes forgotten a bit. At the Amex they'll be very important for us. So we'll try and entertain. At the same time I know we're in the results business. I'm not naive.

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.

For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.

With the XFL, I think the engagement with the fans is something that could really help out.

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

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

All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.