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Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. -- Jimmy Cannon
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel. -- Joe E. Lewis
Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies, -- Sherrod Brown
Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success. -- Amy Poehler
Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way. -- Kate Mara
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia. -- Steve Carlton
Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. -- Nancy Gibbs
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians. -- Wilhelm Reich
Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine. -- Amy Poehler
I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised. -- Gina Carano
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family. -- Jimmy Fallon
There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. -- Harvey Weinstein
I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. -- John Lasseter
I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox. -- Jimmy Fallon
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to. -- Joe Manchin
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other. -- Lynn Shelton
It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate. -- David Caruso
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience. -- Shawn Levy
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture. -- Aarti Sequeira
I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet. -- Andy Roddick
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong. -- Al Franken
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. -- Buddha
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. -- David Petraeus
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. -- Shia LaBeouf
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. -- Kurt Busch
What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less. -- Sheryl Sandberg
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. -- Kevin Plank
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. -- John Legend
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! -- Nick Cannon
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. -- John McEnroe
I am very happy that I have great fans. What I can tell them is they must work on themselves; they should just have fun at what they do. I wish them well with everything, and if they really enjoy what they do, then I think they can go a long way. I will be rooting for them to achieve that. -- Mesut Ozil
Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life. -- Ryan Guzman
I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat. -- Gloria Estefan
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. -- Ann Coulter
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM. -- George Will
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself. -- Ken Jennings
Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there. -- Suzanne Collins
I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience. -- Jim Gaffigan
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people -- Eddie Izzard
When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team. -- Richard Roeper
You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out. -- Raymond T. Odierno
Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me. -- A. J. Hawk
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite. -- Alexis Ohanian
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. -- John Berger
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life. -- Adriana Trigiani
I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog. -- Serena Williams
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on. -- William McFee
I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers. -- Matthew Quick
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on. -- William McFee
Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us. -- Pete Rose
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you. -- Rainbow Rowell
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. -- Sophie Turner
I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way. -- Mitch Albom
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it. -- Beth Mowins
I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing. -- Garry Maddox
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. -- Tim Hudson
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki... -- Thomas Harris
Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny. -- Joy Behar
Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed. -- William A. Rusher
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in. -- Tom Waits
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut. -- Zoe Whittall
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. -- Carlton Cuse
My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing. -- Jeaniene Frost
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? -- Richard Baxter
Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you. -- Danielle LaPorte
I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter. -- Tony Romo
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. -- Paula Creamer
All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war) -- Otto Graham
Personally. My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheekI'm rooting for Logan.Logan produces a grin that suggests he's the cat that ate the canary, and suddenly I'm feeling rather canary-ish. -- Addison Moore
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome -- Ayumi Hamasaki
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself. -- Laura Benanti

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