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I am a huge Red Sox fan. -- Cass Sunstein
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated. -- Charles Krauthammer
So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization? -- Fidel Castro
Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports. -- Carl Yastrzemski
Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are. -- Mike Barnicle
I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time. -- Dustin Pedroia
Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies, -- Sherrod Brown
The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks. -- Stephen King
If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan -- Senator John Kerry
This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston. -- David Ortiz
There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me. -- Willie Randolph
I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox. -- Daisuke Matsuzaka
There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston. -- Terry Francona
I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox, ...But that's another topic. -- Diamond D
[Red Sox and Blue Jays] formula's been they have such durability in the bullpen. -- Joe Maddon
Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. -- John Baldacci
I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well. -- Bill Buckner
The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse. -- Waite Hoyt
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. -- Julianna Baggott
People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four. -- Carlton Fisk
I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have. -- Johnny Pesky
All I can say is, I will put my heart and soul into helping the Red Sox win. -- Pedro Martinez
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. -- Julianna Baggott
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. -- Michael Lewis
I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox. -- Jimmy Fallon
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. -- John Cheever
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite. -- Mark Teixeira
I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am. -- Bill de Blasio
This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death. -- Rachel Nichols
Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados. -- Jen Lancaster
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series! -- Thomas Menino
1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio. -- W. P. Kinsella
In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox. -- Barbara Holland
Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are. -- Dan Shaughnessy
So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed. -- David Letterman
My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs. -- Elizabeth Banks
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play. -- George V. Higgins
You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow. -- Johnny Damon
After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable. -- John Paul Stevens
I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day. -- Alex Rocco
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes! -- Denis Leary
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. -- Thomas Boswell
I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance. -- Hanley Ramirez
New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation. -- Dick Williams
I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else. -- Julian Casablancas
Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox. -- Sarah Vowell
I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail. -- Bill de Blasio
We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something. -- Jimmy Fallon
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season. -- Stephen Rodrick
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression. -- Julianna Baggott
I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun. -- Bill Simmons
In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series. -- Craig Kilborn
The generosity and compassion of Red Sox Nation, our players and the Red Sox Wives never cease to amaze, We were touched and inspired by the eagerness our fans showed to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. -- Larry Lucchino
Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters. -- Paul Bloom
We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that? -- John F. Kerry
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. -- Noah Baumbach
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. -- Michael Lewis
The guy in the Red Sox hat came in with an astonishingly beautiful blond woman at his side. He stood close to her, and though they weren't touching, it was clear that they were a couple. They just belonged together. -- J.R. Ward
It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city. -- Curt Gowdy
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time. -- Bill de Blasio
If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. -- Michael Lewis
The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives. -- Matt Hasselbeck
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. -- James Spader
I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox. -- Erin Andrews
I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime. -- Peter Uihlein
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it. -- Denis Leary
He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are. -- Shelley Long
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that -- Simon Schama
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. -- Rachel Nichols
Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time. -- Tim Wakefield
Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show. -- Dane Cook
I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore. -- Doug Flutie

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