Spectators Quotes

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Public hangings [in England] were abolished in 1868. The last one took place outside Newgate Prison on 26 May of that same year. The man hanged was an Irish terrorist called Michael Barratt who had blown up the Clerkenwell House of Detention killing six people. A drunken crowd stayed up all night to witness the execution. They cheered wildly when the scaffold was brought out at dawn. More people – mainly young women and children – began to arrive. By the time a bell was sounded at eight o’clock in the morning to announce the arrival of the condemned man, the crowd stretched back as far as Smithfield.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

Without pressure, I don't think this would be very much fun, without all the people watching and finding joy in this game.

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.

I want everybody on Fox to see my fighting style, to really become a fan of the sport.

The Regulars are coming out!

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

From my playing experience in Qatar, I know that it is a country and a region which will host a spectacular and passionate World Cup in 2022.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

… one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

My favorite tournament is the U.S. Open because the atmosphere is great.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

Audiences are audiences.

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

I want to get to the big games where everybody's watching.