Quotes on Fans

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

Author: Richie Allen

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Author: Walt Alston

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Author: Sparky Anderson

They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances.

Author: Shiri Appleby

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Author: Dario Argento

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

Author: Frankie Avalon

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

Author: Gerry Beckley

The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so.

Author: Jimmy Black

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

Author: Billy Bragg

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

Author: Chris Burke

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

Author: Harry Caray

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Author: Jim Carrey

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

Author: Chevy Chase

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

Author: Alice Cooper

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Author: Jonathan Davis

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Author: Kim Deal

At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.

Author: Caroline Dhavernas

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

Author: Dustin Diamond

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

Author: Illeana Douglas

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

Author: Sanjay Dutt

I have fans all around the world.

Author: Leslie Easterbrook

The fans make the person a star.

Author: Zac Efron

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.

Author: Eddie Floyd

I have a lot of female fans.

Author: Lita Ford

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

Author: Ace Frehley

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Author: Lady Gaga

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Author: Neil Gaiman

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

Author: Steven Gerrard

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

Author: Steven Gerrard

We have sensible fans and sensible policies.

Author: David Gill

Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it.

Author: David Ginola

Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.

Author: Mark Goddard

Now we have an audience that is so very eclectic. Big, tremendous fans.

Author: Eydie Gorme

The fans know their football, you can't kid them.

Author: Richard Gough

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.

Author: Curt Gowdy

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

Author: Norman Granz

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Author: Alan Hansen

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

Author: Tom Hicks

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Author: Larry Holmes

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

Author: Lamar Hunt

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

Author: Paul Ince

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Author: Goran Ivanisevic

When a singer leaves a band, I believe the band loses something creatively and the fans are disappointed too.

Author: Ben Jackson

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Author: Bo Jackson

Fans don't boo nobodies.

Author: Reggie Jackson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Author: Louise Jameson

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

Author: Daniel Johns

I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.

Author: Cobi Jones

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Author: Davy Jones

They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.

Author: Davy Jones

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

Author: Ashley Judd

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Author: Andreas Katsulas

The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.

Author: Margot Kidder

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

Author: Kerry King

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

Author: Bill Klem

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

Author: David Krumholtz

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

Author: Guy Lafleur

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

Author: Bill Laimbeer

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Author: Bob Lilly

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Author: Loretta Lynn

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

Author: Method Man

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

Author: Nigel Mansell

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

Author: Chris Martin

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.

Author: Richard Marx

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

Author: Christy Mathewson

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Author: Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Author: Audrey Meadows

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

Author: John Mellencamp

Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.

Author: Jim Mitchell

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Author: Elizabeth Moon

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

Author: Alanis Morissette

Packer fans are nuts, man.

Author: Ray Nitschke

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

Author: Gary Numan

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

Author: Conan O'Brien

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

Author: Yoko Ono

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

Author: Jim Otto

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

Author: Minnie Pearl

As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

Author: Alessandro Piero

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

Author: Charley Pride

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

Author: Suzi Quatro

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Author: Daniel Radcliffe

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

Author: Bobby Rahal

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Author: Sally Rand

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Author: Pee Reese

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

Author: Claudio Reyna

I'm very grateful because my fans are very loyal.

Author: Cliff Richard

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.

Author: Denise Richards

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

Author: Matt Robinson

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Author: Wayne Rooney

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

Author: Geoffrey Rush

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

Author: Ryne Sandberg

The fans treated me royally.

Author: Hank Sauer

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.

Author: Michael Schenker

I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

Author: Michael Schumacher

Well, fans always root for the underdog.

Author: Maria Sharapova

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Author: Paul Simon

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

Author: Bubba Sparxxx

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

Author: Bubba Sparxxx

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.

Author: Penelope Spheeris

I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.

Author: Latrell Sprewell

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Author: Rick Springfield

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

Author: Mats Sundin

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

Author: Lawrence Taylor

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Author: Isaiah Thomas

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Author: John Thorn

The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.

Author: Justin Timberlake

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

Author: Justin Timberlake

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

Author: Ashley Tisdale

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

Author: Carrot Top

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.

Author: Hunter Tylo

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

Author: Hunter Tylo

I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

Author: David Walliams

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

Author: Don Was

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

Author: Earl Weaver

I enjoy talking to fans.

Author: Douglas Wilson

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

Author: Will Wright

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

Author: Thom Yorke

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

Author: Rob Zombie