Quotes About Spectators

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.

When I'm onstage, I feel a lot of love. But I don't like crowds and random spectators.

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.

The spectators want to see action, goals, tackles.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Football's become a non-contact sport, and that's spoiled a lot of the fun for a lot of the people, including spectators.

The spectators applaud his skill at seeming clumsy, but what they applaud is not some extra hidden performance executed 'in his head'.

Life was theater, and impressions one made on spectators were what counted. Public leaders had to become actors or characters, masters of masquerade.

All of us watch the man with the ball. Accordingly football has come to be thought of in terms of individuals. The artisans engaged in a manœuvre are forgotten because of the glory of the hero who actually completes the play.

For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that's where the game is going.

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn't very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

The atmosphere in the Premier League is fantastic, the stadiums are always full and it's an attractive league for spectators.

Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.

Sometimes when I need to relax, I just watch in the stands how people are enjoying the tennis or what they are eating.

I'm sad when I see San Siro with empty stands.

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.

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