Richard Roeper Quotes

There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.

There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.

I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.

In previous experiences of being in the All-Star Games, you know, seeing the hometown players and how the fans get behind the hometown players, it's always been a special moment just watching that from afar and being on the other side.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.

You don't have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.

When you are playing in front of your own crowd, you want them to support you.

I'm gonna miss playing for my hometown team. Living five minutes down the road.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

When you play at home, you want the fans behind you, and you must give them something back.

To step out at Craven Cottage - week in, week out - as a local boy is just extra special.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.