Quotes About Rooting

#1. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.

Nicole A. Walker

#2. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#3. The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

Mark Shields

#4. The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels,

Jeph Loeb

#5. Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies,

Sherrod Brown

#6. You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Tom Waits

#7. How can we not still be rooting for the younger versions of ourselves as if they actually exist, playing catch-up in time? Who wouldn't like to implant their current brains into a scenario from the past?

Sloane Crosley

#8. Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

Steve Carlton

#9. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#10. I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

Carlton Cuse

#11. You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

Raymond T. Odierno

#12. I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.

Jennifer Niven

#13. If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

#14. I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

Garry Maddox

#15. The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.

Brunonia Barry

#16. There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

Jimmy Fallon

#17. I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.

Richard Russo

#18. Taken at dawn was amazing I loved how Kylie was so willing to forgive Ellie because I don't think I could do that. However I'm rooting for Derek

C.C. Hunter

#19. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".

Robert Uttaro

#20. We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.

Beth Mowins

#21. It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Ken Jennings

#22. Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

George Washington

#23. Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Wilhelm Reich

#24. All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

Otto Graham

#25. I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

Maggie Smith

#26. The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

John Berger

#27. I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

Matthew Quick

#28. I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

Shawn Levy

#29. President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

Stephanie Cutter

#30. Ganesh was rooting for Wilkin, and it scared the hell out of him. Because when a Hindu god feels the need to offer you strength and compassion, you know the shit's about to get real.

Zander Marks

#31. I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!

Nick Cannon

#32. When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Richard Roeper

#33. I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

#34. Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.

Sophie Turner

#35. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you

James Baldwin

#36. The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

Dane DeHaan

#37. Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki ...

Thomas Harris

#38. A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

William McFee

#39. I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

Jimmy Fallon

#40. That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.

Kurt Busch

#41. The spray, the fog, the night. A moisture that seeps into your bones with the boldness of a rooting weed. Dark water, turbid. Thousands of feet of abyss beneath the ship and somewhere, below, monsters.

Manel Loureiro

#42. Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

Kevin Sorbo

#43. Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

Vicki Robin

#44. Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

Jimmy Cannon

#45. Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

George Will

#46. Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

Dave Barry

#47. Walk toward the fire. Don't worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you're sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.

Andrew Breitbart

#48. Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

Lynn Shelton

#49. I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Gina Carano

#50. I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

Jim Gaffigan

#51. Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Amy Poehler

#52. The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

Orson Scott Card

#53. I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

Mitch Albom

#54. If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

Al Franken

#55. It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly.
"You don't even know-"
"I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

Rainbow Rowell

#56. Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes.

William Gibson

#57. I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

John Lasseter

#58. I get the fantasy league comment a couple of times a series ... that's pretty cool. They might be rooting for the other team, but if I do well it helps them out. It's kind of cool.

Garrett Atkins

#59. In the lower classes the school master does not work for the parent, but against the parent. Modern education meanshanding down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority.

G.K. Chesterton

#60. The NSA?"

"Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."

Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.

Andy Weir

#61. I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.

Michelle Obama

#62. In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of sloppiness on the set or in the editing room.

Richard Corliss

#63. My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

Jeaniene Frost

#64. I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for ... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

Tim Hudson

#65. I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Gary Weiss

#66. I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Claude Shannon

#67. Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Nancy Gibbs

#68. I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.

Sarah Silverman

#69. Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

Suzanne Collins

#70. Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

William A. Rusher

#71. We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive.

Erika Swyler

#72. I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were ... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#73. There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.

Laura Benanti

#74. If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#75. I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.
It was haunted.
The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

D.J. MacHale

#76. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it.

Cecelia Ahern

#77. I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

Gloria Estefan

#78. Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.

Alvin Toffler

#79. I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

Joe Manchin

#80. We were all nomads once, and crossed the deserts and the seas on tracks that could not be detected, but were clear to those who knew the way. Since settling down and rooting like trees, but without the ability to make use of the wind to scatter our seed, we have found only infection and discontent.

Jeanette Winterson

#81. College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

Baratunde Thurston

#82. Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Eric Schneiderman

#83. The church isn't a circle of friends, but the family of God. The covenant of grace connects generations, rooting them in that worshiping community with the "cloud of witnesses" in heaven as well as here and now (Heb 12:1).

Michael S. Horton

#84. Don't be afraid to let go. You have people rooting for you who you can't even see. And if you come up short the first time, you've only lost the battle. You can still win the war, so go for it.
- Jeffery

Rob Buyea

#85. Congratulations on a good outcome! We've all been rooting for you. Charmaine wonders who's been doing the rooting, because she hasn't noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the rooting has taken place behind the scenes.

Margaret Atwood

#86. Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.

Aarti Sequeira

#87. It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

David Caruso

#88. It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

Patrick Kane

#89. I think James here has either just made a gorgeous friend or a sultry enemy," Zane said, watching the swoop and drape of Tabitha's robes as she turned the corner. "I can't say for sure which I am rooting for.

G. Norman Lippert

#90. As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

John Legend

#91. Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Eleanor Brownn

#92. I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

Doug TenNapel

#93. The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

Alexander Kotov

#94. Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

Matthew Bonifacio

#95. So if you're rooting around for something to eat, grab an apple while you're looking, and usually by the time you're finished eating it, your hunger will have been sidelined; it's crowding out at its best!

Kathy Freston

#96. The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Richard Baxter

#97. The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Michael Lewis

#98. Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

Joe E. Lewis

#99. But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.

David Petraeus

#100. Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

Barbara Kingsolver