Booed Quotes

#1. TV is just troubled people being booed these days.

Jon Ronson

#2. Never was I booed.

Willie Stargell

#3. I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

B.o.B

#4. I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Ingmar Bergman

#5. When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Steve Alford

#6. You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Mark Russell

#7. What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

Chris Hedges

#8. To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was a great strain on our nerves. The props of life seem to be crumbling fast.

E.B. White

#9. I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Taylor Swift

#10. I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Karl Rove

#11. To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Luke Rhinehart

#12. I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle ... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

Frank Lampard

#13. Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

Alfred Hitchcock

#14. The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again ... just singing one song, the national anthem.

Hugh Jackman

#15. The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

George Benson

#16. My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.

Grace Paley

#17. More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

Pete Hamill

#18. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#19. Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

#20. I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.

Casey Neistat

#21. Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

Shannen Doherty

#22. I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

Pete Rose

#23. Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

H. G. Bissinger

#24. I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

Teddy Thompson

#25. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Ernie Harwell

#26. For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

Richard Krajicek

#27. They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

Bob Uecker

#28. I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Luis Suarez

#29. I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

Andre Agassi

#30. I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

Mark Teixeira

#31. Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!

Sharon Needles

#32. I've been booed off the field, and I've been carried off the field by people cheering me. So I've seen both ends of it, and I can tell you the bad side of it gets a lot more attention than the good side does, but the good side is pretty darned good when it's on your side.

Tom Glavine

#33. I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

Dick Cavett

#34. 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

#35. I was like a local sports team; they were the fans in the stadium seats. They cheered. They booed. They stood and did the Wave. The bond was palpable, maniacal, and maybe the most important thing about the experience.

Caroline Paul

#36. It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

Allen Iverson

#37. Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!

Brian Celio

#38. I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

Barry Larkin

#39. In defeat, stay calm; in victory, stay calm! When you see the Devil, stay calm; when you see the angel, stay calm! When booed, stay calm; when applauded, stay calm! Stay calm in every situation! Just stay calm!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

John Higgins