Rooting Quotations

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.

But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

I was rooting for Aaron so hard I didn't pay attention to my game.

I was rooting for him, one, because he's black and two, because he's from Chicago. I don't care if he was playing hockey or ice skating, I wanted him to outdo his competition.

Nobody in this building was really rooting for us. I think guys used that for motivation.

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different. Katie is a superb person, and she's a great pro. I'll be rooting for her, and I wish her well.

Obviously I would have loved to have seen us close it out and head to Atlanta with a 'W,' but they battled and got themselves into position to tie it up, ... After that, I was a spectator in here rooting guys on. You've got to tip your hat to all our guys in the bullpen. They've taken a lot of heat all year. Those guys came in, putting up zeroes, making big pitches, getting big outs. Going 18 innings, I have a lot of respect for those guys. They went out and battled, but they just outlasted us.

I got no one to root for. I sure as heck ain't rooting for the White Sox or Cardinals.

I'd like to face them, but I'm not rooting for them, if you know what I mean.

I don't have any doubt who he's rooting for. Blood is thicker than water.

I don't expect to fit in right away but I do sense that the fashion world is rooting for me, too. I'm not being treated like a celebrity wannabe fashion designer. But even if I was, it doesn't really matter because I'm doing this for me ... but it does feel really good when you have a hit,

I didn't like the way they came out the other night. I wanted them to come out like the Spurs, within the first five minutes, the game was over. I still think they are going to be all right. I'm kind of torn. I can't really talk about them too much here in Chicago. They love their sports out here. I have to root for the Heat silently around here. I'm definitely rooting for them, though. They play Thursday here, and we have an off-day. I'm going to see if I can sneak in there.

She's rooting for her brother. She better. She's known him a lot longer than me.

She's rooting for me. Last time I checked, I pay the mortgage.

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

I don't think I've ever played in a golf tournament with so many people rooting against me. It's hard when you know the crowd's not pulling for you.

I felt I had let down my family, my friends, everyone who was rooting for me at that time. It's in my best interest to go out there and try and redeem that.

Basically, around the district and the state -- and even the nation -- people are rooting for A.J. But Brent handled it well. He answered A.J.?s strengths.

We think that no mutual fund has actually met the gold standard yet in terms of aggressively rooting out pay that's not deserved.

He wanted to let us know he was rooting for us and wished he could be here. He called us all and said, 'Come out and play hard. Play Arizona basketball.' So that's what we did. We came out with intensity, got out on the floor and just ran.

He has had a lot of problems over the years. We are all rooting for him and hope he pulls through. Everyone has their own opinion about football and their favorite players but in terms of British players, you would find it difficult to think of anyone better.

He's good with the bat. He'll run the ball out. It's almost like you're rooting for him because of his effort.

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.

That always goes a long way, guys rooting for each other, pulling for each other, not pointing fingers.

People have come to understand that they can influence the sports or the outcome of a game by the behavior that they initiate in the stands or in public. If it's done in a positive way, rooting for your team, that's well and good.

People keep asking me 'can we really do it?' Why not? We won't be easy pickings for United, that's for sure. We are no one's pushover and everyone in the land who does not have an affinity for United will be rooting for us and urging us to victory.

People are like kids when they see it. It's not just a trophy to them; it represents all the years of rooting for the team.

I'm still rooting for him. He is an American.

I think we have the momentum going we have the whole country rooting for us.

I think it got us a little tentative, especially Eric. He knew if he picked up his third there that he'd probably be sitting the rest of the (first) half. We got beat by a pretty good team tonight. Our kids should be proud and hold their heads up high because I think they've got a great shot at winning a few more games. We'll be rooting them on.

I think it's great, I'm actually rooting for her - unless of course she plays me.

Year after year fans like this day just as much as any during the season. Baseball purists like to watch practice drills while others like to come and get their first autograph or picture with the players they'll be rooting for all summer long.

Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from insects. Hogs root to eat, and rooting in muddy areas is much easier than rooting in dry areas.

We're really not rooting for a bear market. It's like fire insurance. You don't hope for a fire but you keep some insurance just in case. It's a good component for people with stock exposure to make the ride a little smoother.

Whether everybody who shows up is rooting for the Rebels or not, I don't know, but certainly it will be exciting. I would imagine they would (travel well) coming off a national championship ... and just because of some of the momentum that their athletic department has.

That's them being selfish. I don't care. As long as my teammates aren't rooting for us to lose, I'm fine.

That's tough as a coach. Whoever is swimming is who she's rooting for.

We're close to home, and we have family and friends there rooting for us, and that makes a big difference in your show.

We're all normally BYU fans, but there's going to be a small Air Force fan club there rooting for a blowout and a lopsided game.

When the Australians walked out, the crowd went nuts, and when we walked out, the crowd went even more nuts. I can't describe how amazing that was. Three thousand people were here rooting for the two strongest swimming nations. I'll never forget that, and I was glad to be part of it.

When you're down out here, it doesn't seem like you're down because I have so many fans rooting for me,

We definitely are few, but we're a proud few, ... Everybody's been rooting for me since I was 15. It's a camaraderie, not just pitchers but African American players in general.

We are kind of the underdogs. Nobody in this building is really rooting for us, and I think guys, they used that as sort of a motivating factor.

We were a little slow starting out this morning and made some mistakes that lost us. Georgia rode very well and we are rooting for the SEC now and hope they can win it all.

We came a couple of matches away from sending three guys to state. It would have been nice to get a group of guys down there for the first time to share the experience, but they will be rooting for him.

We pay attention a little bit. I'm rooting for our Big East guys. For every game we keep winning there are less and less teams playing. The longer we can play, the better.

We were rooting for them, and they were rooting for us. After they won, they came by our locker room and wished us good luck, told us to represent D.C. We showed each other love all week here.

Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.

We're rooting for everybody we beat. That's the best way to put it.

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

We respect Sammy and what he has accomplished in the game. We wish him well and hope that he is able to come back and perform like he did a couple of years ago. As long as he is not in our division, we'll be rooting for him to win Comeback Player of the Year.

We wrestled with everything we had tonight. We were all rooting in that last bout for a pin. It just didn't happen.

We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.

We knew they were rooting for us in the beginning but they changed. We thought it was funny.

Besides my kids being born and my wife being so supportive, he kind of really inspired me to come back, ... It was just really heart-warming to know this young kid was rooting for me and told me to keep my head up. Things that we say to young kids, this young man was saying the exact same thing to me. It just really motivated me to work harder and get back.

Even my own buddies around the league tell me, 'Hey, you know what? I'm rooting for you, but I really don't want you to win.

I've been living here my whole life and I'm sure the neighbors who know me will be rooting for me, but I'm sure a lot of people in Novato aren't, ... Sometimes I do feel like people are against us, but all we think about is how we play on the field. We don't pay attention to that stuff.

We were down in the game by a lot, but we still had that fire. We were rooting for him big time.

(A)s the opposition party, ... Democrats have a responsibility to hold the White House accountable for the painfully high price we've paid in Iraq, the thousands killed and wounded, and the billions of dollars spent. But they must do so in a way that makes it clear they are rooting for America to succeed in Iraq.

The team is very close and (the players) are genuinely rooting for one another.

The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good headline get in the way of the ... facts.

There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for.

We've got a lot of people rooting for us.

We went through Ocean to get to High Point. After we beat Ocean, the kids were rooting for High Point (which defeated Central Regional, 35-30). We kept telling them after Voorhees (which South Plainfield destroyed 60-4 in the North 2 Group III final on Thursday) that it was Ocean first, then High Point.

That's why I'm rooting for us to get to one, so all these guys can understand what I'm saying.

That should be fun. My wife better be rooting for Southern. But it will be a good game.

A lot of people wonder if you can translate into being a fan. It's been easy for me having Scott on the team. I'm just rooting for him every game and just watching other guys develop who were young when I was here.

A lot of people would come, and they would look at their home for a day and just be so They couldn't deal with throwing away all their life like that, so they would tell the volunteer groups to just throw everything away. They didn't want to be there to see it so you're kind of rooting through these families' lives and photo albums and everything, and throwing it all away.

A lot of good kids who I know are rooting for the Steelers. When I get back, I'll have to take them in the back room and have a talk.

They've done a great job and I couldn't be happier for them. I'm happy for the team and the city. I'll be rooting hard.

energetic and vigorous about rooting out all those bishops who have kept priests in positions of ministry where they can harm children again.

There was a group of young guys - looked like there late high school or early college - who just started rooting for him, ... They were really whooping it up.

With Pete's book and admitting all the things that a lot of people didn't know he had done - they really believed he hadn't bet on baseball - I think that kind of upset a lot of people that were rooting hard for Pete, ... The fact that he did bet on it, and what he was accused of he did, didn't contribute much to his possibility of getting voted in.

We are silently rooting for their teams not to advance.

This will go down as the shot heard round the world for the home-audio business. We've been trying to reinvent the stereo since we were born, but little companies can't create new categories by themselves. We need someone with a bigger megaphone, so we're rooting for Apple.

They were kind of torn between rooting for both teams. One of us made it, so there's still a Sun Devil out there.

This deal gives GM a better shot at returning to profitability and generating bonuses for line workers and their salaried workers. What we should all be rooting for, no matter where we work, is that the Michigan-based auto sector becomes more competitive and more profitable.

I've got a little more pressure because there are a lot of fans out there rooting for me. But it'd be neat winning in your home town.

I'm sure everyone in the clubhouse was rooting for Barry to be back. We had some young guys last year, and a few of us looked to Barry to help us along the way.

I'm sure they're cheering in Houston. We've been hearing about the Reggie Bush pick for the last five or six weeks. A lot of our fans have been rooting for us to lose. I understand what they mean. Having the No. 1 pick in the draft gives them hope and optimism for next season.

I know that this loss really hurt them. But, that's hockey. We needed to win. To keep this going. They're a good group (Lyman Hall) and, like us they're young. I'm rooting for them the rest of the way. It would be good for hockey statewide if they're able to come back and qualify for the state tournament.

I'm a season-ticket holder and I've been rooting for the Bruins since I was in diapers. I tell you what, it was a brutal start to the game. I was actually depressed. But it turned out to be a great game.

I'm not sure my dad is going to be able to come. They'll have scouting and the draft to get ready for. But he'll be rooting for me.

I'm taking next week off and will be rooting for my husband when he plays in the qualifiers.

If rooting out corruption in the House of Representatives is truly a priority for both parties, then we ask a member, any member, to put their money where their mouth is and file this complaint against Acting House Majority Leader Roy Blunt. We urge members to end the ethics 'truce' and cease abdicating their responsibility to police the conduct of their colleagues.

If I were a fan, I'd be rooting for them, too. But I'm playing. So we have to go out and take care of things.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for, ... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.