Top 55 Rooting Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rooting Quotes from famous people such as Ben Zobrist, Richard Corliss, Richard Roeper, Kevin Magnussen, Kurt Busch, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have family and friends who are strong Cardinal fans,

I have family and friends who are strong Cardinal fans, and they are having a tough time since I signed. They want to root for me, but rooting for the Cubs is next to a sin.
Ben Zobrist
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
When we root-root-root for the home team, we’re rooting for our home as much as the team.
Richard Roeper
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.
Kevin Magnussen
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
It’s a dream come true. I get to play for my hometown team, the team I grew up rooting for.
Steve Clevenger
Once you own a team for as many years as I have, and you root for that team for that period of time, you’ve got rooting for the Blazers in your blood, and the Sonics are one of our arch-competitors.
Paul Allen
I’m troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump’s failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.
Eva Moskowitz
When you put the sacred Croatia shirt on, you become another person. We have this togetherness, this unique unity – not just in football. We are exceptional in tennis, handball, basketball, water polo. If we were to hold a tournament in ping pong, all of us would be rooting for that single player.
Ivan Rakitic
Rooting for the Dodgers once would have been heresy within my New York family.
Ed Henry
I’ve always been really turned off by a show where you’re kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things that they do, or regardless of how their ego is clearly driving what they’re doing.
Ramy Youssef
Once you start rooting against somebody, you’re always going to look for the negative in everything they do.
Lane Kiffin
I am very happy that I have great fans. What I can tell them is they must work on themselves; they should just have fun at what they do. I wish them well with everything, and if they really enjoy what they do, then I think they can go a long way. I will be rooting for them to achieve that.
Mesut Ozil
Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.
Letitia James
It’s a unique fraternity to be a standup. I think everybody understands, you know, opportunity, and everybody – especially at the top – are genuinely rooting for you.
Michael Che
When I would read the ‘Archie’ comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.
Cole Sprouse
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.
Adam F. Goldberg
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
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
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
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
Edward Hirsch
Rooting out white supremacists and right-wing extremists is a challenge that local law enforcement agencies, and even the U.S. military, is facing all across this nation.
Alex Padilla
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.
Taylor Steele
I think, in general, when you’re doing comedy, you’re having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you’re playing. I think you want that, too: you’re rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they’re angry at each other, they’re still in synch with each other.
Lake Bell
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
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
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.
Paula Creamer
There couldn’t have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It’s beyond baseball. It’s rooting for your family.
Jimmy Fallon
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.
Michael Buffer
I know I’m always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
Gina Carano
The support we received at OneRiot from the beginning has been amazing. Everyone’s door was open, and everyone was rooting for our success. In turn, our team at OneRiot has done everything we can to return the favor.
Kimbal Musk
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively root

It’s boring to have the same guy win. I’m actively rooting against myself.
Ken Jennings
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.
Gary Bettman
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
You’re from Louisiana – you’re playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they’re rooting for me.
Leonard Fournette
I’m supposed to be rooting against Joe Biden and every time he takes the stage I feel nervous that he’s not going to be able to coherently string a sentence together and if I feel that way, I think Democrat voters out there probably feel very nervous about him.
Lara Trump
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
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.
Scarlett Moffatt
I can’t root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.
Timothy Olyphant
Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
Dennis Farina
I was having all these thoughts, not really sure what I was doing in school. And I just said, ‘I’m gonna go out and climb.’ I had this great day with a friend, bouldering and rooting each other on, and I came back thinking, ‘I don’t like the way it feels to be competitive. I don’t want to be ruled by it.’
Dean Potter
I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It’s a hard team to root for, but there’s something that always keeps me hopeful.
Julia Stiles
‘Hustle & Flow’ came out, and I was really rooting for ‘Hustle & Flow’ because, you know, it was a hip-hop movie, and it was a good movie. It was well acted.
Damon Dash
I started rooting – you know, sticking up joints – with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was – the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.
Mickey Cohen
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
The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of ‘you lie’ from the well of Congress as he spoke to a joint session, to the unprecedented spectacle of American conservatives rooting against their own country being awarded the Olympic Games.
Joy Reid
I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I’m really rooting for the Red Sox.
Jimmy Fallon
It’s one thing if you live in London and you’re rooting for Chelsea or you’re in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who’s on the team you’re into it. It’s different in tennis; you’re sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
John McEnroe
I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.
Ari Aster
There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for.
Milton Bradley
I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don’t know what they want until it walks into the room – you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!
Eric Stonestreet