Rooting For Others Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Matthew Quick

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

John Berger

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Ken Jennings

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Nicole A. Walker

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

Jimmy Fallon

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Andy Weir

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

Jennifer Niven

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

Raymond T. Odierno

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Steve Carlton

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Sherrod Brown

#29. 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

#30. 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