Quotes About Cheerleaders

#1. I gather sentences round, quotations, the literary equivalent of a cheerleading squad. Except that analogy's screwy - cheerleaders cheer. I put up placards that make me feel bad.

Zadie Smith

#2. Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

George Takei

#3. I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

Paula Cole

#4. The politics at Max's were very similar to high school, except the popular people were not the cheerleaders or football heroes and the prom queen would most certainly e a he, dressed as a she, knowing more about being a she than most she's.

Patti Smith

#5. I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.

Judd Apatow

#6. Experts chosen to represent a specific point of view are cheerleaders, not scientists. And people who rely on them are denialists.

Michael Specter

#7. In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

Shelley Hendrix

#8. The sense of immunity felt by a particular group currently in power is bound to be illusory. That is made clear when we look at how partisan affiliation shapes people's sense of the dangers of state surveillance. What emerges is that yesterday's cheerleaders can quickly become today's dissenters.

Anonymous

#9. Football players throw a 3 pound ball in the air, but cheerleaders throw a 100 pound girl in the air and catch her.

John P. Harley

#10. Preps are like cheerleaders, except less jumpy

Katie Alender

#11. My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

Andie MacDowell

#12. You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.

Peyton Reed

#13. Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will lie to themselves, if necessary, to do this.

Jodi Picoult

#14. Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Rita Rudner

#15. Any idea why there is a giant penis made out of snow in our front yard?"
Instead of an answer, I was rewarded with a face full of graham cracker cereal and milk." - from Of Cheerleaders and Gingers

K.C. Beaumont

#16. The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.

Ivan Slavkov

#17. Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

Junot Diaz

#18. Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Eric Schlosser

#19. If I ever form my own clan, we'll be the Anti-Cheerleaders. We will not sit in the bleachers. We will wander underneath them and commit mild acts of mayhem.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#20. The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Brooke Langton

#21. Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

Amanda Ripley

#22. I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

Kate Mara

#23. I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Sherman Alexie

#24. In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Steve Allen

#25. I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.

Max Minghella

#26. Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.

Kelly Creagh

#27. Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People

Stephanie

#28. It's not like I'm actually wishing for more dead cheerleaders. I'm just saying, if someone has to go ... "
Tod snorted. "I like her."
-Emma

Rachel Vincent

#29. Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

Lawrence Taylor

#30. So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#31. This story is going to be all about touchdowns and cheerleaders screaming my name.

James Patterson

#32. The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

Kevin DeYoung

#33. Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room.

Nelly

#34. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Ashley Tisdale

#35. Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

Joe Biden

#36. I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.

Joseph Stiglitz

#37. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#38. If there's a will, there's a way!
I feel larger than LIFE
and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders ... as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..

Donna Scrima-Black

#39. Cheerleaders are simultaneously everything that is right and wrong with the world.

Dov Davidoff

#40. When spreading your wings do not fear, the people who love you will always pick you back up when you fall, and on the day that you learn to soar the ones who love you will be your biggest cheerleaders.

Me

#41. I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.

Ashley Tisdale

#42. AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.

Lois Lowry

#43. [Growing up in rural Ohio], all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders. I'm more comfortable with straight women. I don't have any lesbian friends, sadly.

Jackie Warner

#44. I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

Ashley Benson

#45. My current option was a Waffle House full of cheerleaders and a guy dressed in Reynolds wrap.

John Green

#46. I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

Spencer Grammer

#47. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.

Ros Baxter

#48. I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!

Sarah Roemer

#49. Come on, Cabel," Carrie says. "Let me give you a ride, at least. Unless you want Shay to- hey, here she comes now." Carrie titters, her eyes dancing.
Cabel's eyes grow wide. He slips into the backseat of Carrie's car without a word. "Get me outta here. Fuckin' creepy cheerleaders.

Lisa McMann

#50. Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Amy Lee

#51. I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.

Michael McDowell

#52. All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

Meghan Trainor

#53. You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

Al McGuire

#54. We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.

Pat Williams

#55. The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

Brian Malloy

#56. Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?"
"I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said.

Jim Butcher

#57. Hey! Remember the '90s?
The Clintons were in office, everybody was using AOL, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri did "the Cheerleaders" on SNL, and everybody thought Oasis was fantastic.
In hindsight, we were all a bunch of potato-salad-eating jackasses.

Julie Klausner

#58. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#59. Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#60. The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

Pat Williams

#61. Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.

We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster

Rainbowbrook

#62. Dear God," I said, dodging a pair of zombie cheerleaders to cross the busy pathway to the "Hunkiest" table, staring down at the assortment of pink, white, and pale blue panties, Ethan's green eyes staring out from the front triangle.

Chloe Neill

#63. Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Courtney Summers

#64. We cheerleaders are peppy and happy and get front row seats to the game!

Bob Casey Jr.

#65. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

Chet Huntley

#66. When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.
I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?

Ilona Andrews

#67. If they ever turn, let them chase me for a while. It's always been a
fantasy of mine to be chased by zombie cheerleaders.

Alison Kemper

#68. I've survived beach bunny cheerleaders, a sluthunting , ex-boyfriend, and five years of cross-country camp. I'm not afraid of some throwback to ancient myth with astrocious highlights and a Barbra Streisand nose.

Tera Lynn Childs

#69. There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

Maureen Johnson

#70. The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

Johann Hari

#71. Moms are life's number one cheerleaders without uniforms.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#72. I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?

John Green

#73. I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

Patricia Millett

#74. If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#75. I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

Kurt Cobain

#76. As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.

Steve Tisch

#77. It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Prentice Marshall

#78. Todd came toward me with the squad trailing behind him like a street gang of angry thugs with breasts.

Kristin Walker

#79. This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.

Megan Abbott