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Quotes About Arena

Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.
~ Alun Wyn Jones
When I bought the team, I wasn't thinking about a new arena. But obviously I'm very proud of the contributions that the Bulls franchise has made to the community between Chicago Bulls Charities and the re-development of the West Side with the United Center being the catalyst.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
~ Gladys Knight
Playing in the Target Center where there's more than 15,000 people every night, it's just crazy.
~ Ricky Rubio
Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?
~ Tracy Lawrence
All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.
~ Diplo
Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.
~ Robert Altman
I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.
~ Mark Lanegan
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
~ Aneurin Bevan
I do not like - in the middle of a wrestling arena where they're serving alcohol and there are screaming fans including children in the front row - I don't feel like that is the proper place to be exposed.
~ Sable
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
~ Alain de Botton
Animals fattened for your for your arena suffered less than you in dying-yours the lawlessness of something simple that has lost its law, my namesake, and the last Caligula.
~ Robert Lowell
It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.
~ Victor Saul Navasky
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
~ Anson Dorrance
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
~ Anna Funder
[Salutation by gladiators:] Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
~ Anonymous
A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
~ Ross Perot, Jr.
Romantic love is a collective arena within which the social divisions and the cultural contradictions of capitalism are played out.
~ Eva Illouz
There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.
~ Sid Waddell
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
~ Fernando Botero
Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.
~ Boy George
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
~ Robert Nozick
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.
~ Jonathan Waterman
A great center for gladiatorial combats, it boasted a fine amphitheater
~ Anthony Everitt