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I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium. -- Willie Stargell
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. -- Steve Carlton
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. -- Derek Jeter
I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool. -- CC Sabathia
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher. -- Tommy Lasorda
Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better. -- Alan Casden
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium. -- Paul Allen
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. -- Roger Maris
It never rains in Tiger Stadium, -- Les Miles
I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium. -- Masa Takayama
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night. -- Rick Reilly
Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger -- Alan Pardew
At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain. -- John Lennon
Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'. -- Jacob Ruppert
I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium. -- Bert Blyleven
There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing. -- Caroline Wozniacki
Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum. -- Bear Bryant
Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses. -- Jerry Jones
You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help, -- Skip Bertman
We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile). -- Brian Skrudland
The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium. -- Mickey Mantle
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. -- Henny Youngman
All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium. -- Ralph Kiner
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight. -- Sandy Koufax
I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust -- Artie Lange
The height of human desire is what wins, whether it's on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium. -- Woody Hayes
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. -- Mickey Mantle
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium. -- Nick Johnson
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. -- Nomar Garciaparra
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. -- Bert Campaneris
After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same. -- Mickey Mantle
When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever. -- Andy Pettitte
Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches. -- Steve Spurrier
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. -- Adrian Mitchell
I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored. -- Armand Deutsch
Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business! -- Sid Bernstein
Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat. -- Effa Manley
Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium. -- Derek Jeter
When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there. -- Mickey Mantle
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it. -- Ai Weiwei
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. -- Bob Feller
From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium. -- Pat Forde
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number. -- Carli Lloyd
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. -- Pedro Martinez
The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started. -- Fred Claire
Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live. -- Chad Smith
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper. -- James Caan
I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football. -- Art Donovan
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium. -- Reggie Jackson
If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.' -- Mickey Mantle
Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath. -- Bob Arum
Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd. -- Puff Daddy
I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd. -- Sean Combs
I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags. -- Jessica Ennis
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true. -- David Wells
You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight. -- Kenny Chesney
We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to improve Arrowhead-which is oriented for NFL games--for our spectators. -- Lamar Hunt
The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed. -- Bob Uecker
I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do. -- Kyle Brindza
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court. -- Alex Berenson
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem. -- Adam DeVine
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. -- Ai Weiwei
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened. -- Kelly Jones
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen..." -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't. -- Peter Jacobson
Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden. -- Grant Hill
During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.' -- Peter Golenbock
My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half. -- Pat Forde
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it. -- Bill Anderson
I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life. -- Jeremy Luke
I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall. -- Katherine Jenkins
Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside. -- Mickey Rooney
I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game. -- Hal Newhouser
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that. -- Sam Kinison
There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be. -- Mary Karr
If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then he turned to his friends and said, 'You guys want anything?'' That's a joke. I can't believe it. I caved in. I feel awful. -- Jimmy Fallon
Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you'll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU's Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night. -- Pat Forde
According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks. -- Jimmy Fallon
I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland. -- Roger Federer
There's no better feeling than sitting on the team bus travelling to the Millennium Stadium knowing that the team will be playing in front of 74,500 people. You're driven through the crowds where you see the smiles on people's faces and I get a huge buzz out of that. -- Warren Gatland
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. -- Ai Weiwei
I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting. -- Wright Thompson
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium. -- James Taylor
I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. -- Tom DeLonge
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -- Jello Biafra
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration. -- Didier Drogba
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same. -- Carl Zeiss
In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. -- James Chanos
I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot. -- Landon Donovan
Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted. -- Allyson Felix
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. -- George Lucas
The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot. -- Marisa Miller
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. -- Garth Brooks
My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. -- Michael Irvin
I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode. -- Cam Newton
The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town. -- Eric Dickerson
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. -- George Halas
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. -- Richard Dawkins
Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself. -- Mario Balotelli
I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium! -- Mark Teixeira
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. -- Leonard Louis Levinson
They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium. -- Brendan Rodgers
Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached. -- Harold Lloyd
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. -- Derek Jeter
It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting. -- Yohan Blake
If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium -- Joe Flacco
I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium) -- Thierry Henry
It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name. -- CC Sabathia
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. -- Georg Simmel
When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes. -- Nicki Minaj
Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl. -- Van Morrison
I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania -- Ron Greenwood
It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players. -- Isco
The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that. -- David Gill
When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters. -- Bengie Molina
I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem. -- Joe Elliott
Since the national team doesn't have a stadium yet, they'll come to play here, at Sofia airport. -- Ivan Slavkov
Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs. -- Simon Jordan

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