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Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. -- Juha Vaatainen
So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. -- Jerry Garcia
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh. -- Blanka Vlasic
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians. -- Bill Toomey
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. -- Lorrie Fair
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums. -- Franz Beckenbauer
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style. -- Cat Stevens
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all. -- Bobby Vinton
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. -- Franz Beckenbauer
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. -- Derek Jeter
I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career. -- Bill Toomey
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. -- Mickey Mantle
I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best. -- Nader al-Masri
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. -- Anatoli Boukreev
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. -- Xavi
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you -- Robert Plant
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
Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. -- Otto Schily
Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said. -- Mike Gordon
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
I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. -- Todd Blackledge
I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it's Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America. -- Les Miles
I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together. -- Friedrich Holderlin
Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances...things that shape us into who we are. -- Orel Hershiser
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums. -- Andy Murray
We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me. -- Andriy Shevchenko
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that. -- James Bay
I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums. -- Robbie Williams
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. -- Robert Plant
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams. -- Jermain Defoe
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger. -- Young Jeezy
I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums. -- John Madden
People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people. -- Amanda Palmer
The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed. -- Lamar Hunt
What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would. -- Noel Gallagher
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world. -- Billy Graham
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format. -- Vicente del Bosque
I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents. -- Maria Bamford
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. -- Jerry Saltz
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful. -- Taylor Swift
It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?' -- Bono
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums. -- Tim Hudson
When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it -- George Best
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy. -- Dave Zirin
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. -- Irwin Shaw
You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again. -- Raphael Saadiq
Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. -- will.i.am
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. -- Franklin Foer
You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full. -- Jason Aldean
The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums. -- Terre Thaemlitz
We are going to Baton Rouge and one of the most storied stadiums in the country, a place I can truthfully say is the loudest place I've ever been. -- Mark Richt
I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.' -- Joan Rivers
The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories. -- Mike Tomlin
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility. -- Majora Carter

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