Spectator Quotations

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

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.

From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's been a passion of mine for a while, and I'll still be there to support (the club).

I don't believe you can be an honest performer and a spectator at the same time.

He was instrumental in introducing the sport of auto racing to millions and his presence best represents the country's fastest-growing spectator sport.

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

Going to the bathroom is not a spectator sport.

His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of California's largest spectator event under way.

We can have more than one session at a time here. There are two riding pens. There's a new spectator area, too.

I thought it was a good game from a spectator point of view. We certainly had our opportunities throughout the game. What really hurt us were their points-off-turnovers, those were crucial, and our inability to hit some key free throw throws.

I think the game has an enormous spectator appeal that dwarfs all American sports because it is so international.

Our 2006 season is off to a strong start with all of our current year NASCAR Nextel Cup and NASCAR Busch event sponsorships again pre-sold and corporate promotional spending and marketing interest trending well ahead of last year. The new highs in broadcast television and cable ratings for the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series season clearly show that spectator interest and corporate marketing appeal continues to grow.

Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure of the race. And just from the mental side it helps you stay focused better knowing you do these loops and you're not just off on the course out in the middle of nowhere.

I was a spectator out there, ... I can't give you much more than that.

It brings to light the danger when a player enters the spectator stands. At that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened.

I would like to be a spectator today, but they gave me a t-shirt and they gave me some sticks and I'll probably get in there one play, but I'm not a player.

We are thinking of having 15,000 extra people there. We can fill up the designated spectator areas along the race. This is the last competition and we can have a party.

We have so many more competitors now. Anyone who wants to can do it and it's a great spectator sport.

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

We have made it plain to our players and our fans that players may not enter the spectator stands, no matter the provocation, and that violations of this policy will be treated with the utmost seriousness.

What an awesome team, ... Our team's running so great. I am deep in the Funny Car battle, and I'm just a spectator over there. It's just fun to watch. It's so much fun to be a part of it.

We created a lot of chances and had a good style of playing. For a neutral spectator it was a good game to watch with a lot of chances but obviously we're not happy we didn't win.

Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

With the CBA right now, we've got a good thing going. The owners, the players and fans are the ones reaping the rewards because there hasn't been a strike in 20 years in the NFL. It's been great. We're the No. 1 spectator sport in America and why is that? It's largely because of the CBA and the parity that exists because of it.

Unfortunately, government has become a spectator sport. You can't have a government interested in sitting on the sidelines. This administration has done a marvelous job of lowering people's expectations.

That's what I was feeling, too. I was willing to go on the other side if I'm just going to be a spectator on offense.

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

This is a time to be very diversified and avoid taking chances. Sometimes being a spectator is not a bad idea.

This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.

I'm biased. I love having the state meets in Madison. My concern with Waukesha South is that the spectator seating is on the pool deck, so where are the athletes going to be?

I'll be enjoying it. I'll just be a spectator and appreciative of the Kentucky Derby.

I'm a fan, not a spectator, and there's a huge difference. A spectator sits and merely observes, but a fan is someone who gets into a game and tries to help his team win.

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Oh, man, what a tournament to be a spectator at with all the great matches. It's been so exciting with all the big upsets. (Today) won't be a day to be in the consolations with all of those guys coming back through.

This is definitely a fun spectator event. The entire race can be seen from the Sunlight Sun Deck.

Dany was Dany tonight. He was flying. He had the one-timer going. I was just a spectator tonight.

It's very festive and upbeat. You can be a spectator or you can play.

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

Behavior at sporting events is quite possibly influenced by the very marketing activities that are designed to make spectator sports attractive to fans.

It's hard being a spectator watching this other case being tried. It's like I'm on the outside looking in.

It's an area that's more dependent on the government, and that's led to high voter turnout. Traditionally politics has been a spectator sport there ... they take it very seriously.

In addition to cutting our spectator ticket prices, we wanted to look at our concession menu and see if we couldn't bring those prices down as well. I'm happy to say we've been able to do so.

(The draw) presents us with new challenges against attractive teams, both on the professional level and in terms of spectator interest, where our fans will be able to see players of the highest caliber in Europe.

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.

This is a great spectator course. People can view the entire race, which is really different from most cross country courses where the runners are in and out of trails and wooded areas. It makes for a much more interested and enthusiastic crowd.

This has really become a spectator sport. When your team is up everyone is in the stands cheering and when your team is down, people are on the sidelines. But euphoria about the war going right and depression about it going wrong represents a very short-term view of the market.

For a spectator this was a great game to watch. You could tell they had the momentum, then we had it and then they had it. It was a very, very close match. I feel fortunate, but I'm glad we came out on top because it was anybody's game.

It's an honor not only to be featured in such a well-respected publication as Southern Living, but also to be a recipient of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence once again.

As a fan and as a spectator I would be (impressed). But as a player, we go to the big-time schools night-in and night-out. So it's not a big deal, to be honest. I'm not in awe of any schools. Nothing spectacular about it.

It's a cut throat world out there (on the course). It is hard enough on your own but then you've got three guys riding next to you. It is a great spectator sport.

Those rocks are unstable, people shouldn't be out there. Mavericks is a great event, but it's not a spectator event.

It's fun to put on a race this spectator friendly.

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species