Top 210 Rooting Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooting about in the bushes.” Anne followed his gaze uneasily. “Rooting?” “She told me she was practicing for the next play.” Anne blinked at him, not following. “For when she gets to be a unicorn.” “Oh, of course.” She chuckled. “She is rather tenacious, that one.

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

Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.

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

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

I just consider Boston and New England incredible sports fans. If they give me trouble, think I'm rooting for other side, it's mainly because they're living and dying with every pitch and every play and think I'm rooting for the other side. I'd much rather that than apathy.

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

I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.

Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.

I have fans rooting for me, all the other drivers in the midfield have fans rooting for them, and they never get to see that driver fighting for wins. Of course it would be a lot better if you had a broader range of drivers who were in the fight for wins.

Yeah, the only time I'm finally rooting for someone is when I'm in the clubhouse and I'm done and they're out there playing and have a chance to win.

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...

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

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

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

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

I think there just needs to be an emotional attachment to the surfer, however you get that, so that, when you watch the surfing, you can relate to that person, or you're rooting for them, in a way.

I just want to know—are you rooting for me? Are you hoping I pull this off?" Cath's eyes settled on his, tentatively, like they'd fly away if he moved. She nodded her head. The right side of his mouth pulled up. "I'm rooting for you," she whispered. She wasn't even sure he could hear her from the bed. Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face.

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

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

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.

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

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.

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

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

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

I cannot imagine how I could ever stop rooting for the Buffalo Bills over the actions of a few players in a time of political upheaval.

There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for.

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

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

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

No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.

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

My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.

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

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

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

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.

We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.

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

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

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.

I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

Playing for a team you grew up rooting for, there's nothing cooler than that.

Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.

I never pick a side when I am announcing a big boxing match but there's always a part of you rooting for the underdog I guess.

I'm definitely rooting for the Heat.

I am absolutely obsessed with 'This Country.' Daisy May Cooper's character, Kerry, is so relatable, and someone you're rooting for from the get-go.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

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

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.

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

I've fought all these top Brazilians. They're all supporting their people, Anderson Silva, they're supporting him. Lyoto Machida, they're all supporting him. I didn't have the full support of America. Not everyone American was rooting for me because I'm from America. If they were rooting for me, it's because they were a fan of me.

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

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

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.