“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
Bob Dylan
“The applause belongs to the teams. They are the ones who provided the fans an experience on such an exceptional level that enabled the League overall to reach this previously unattained plateau.”
Branch Rickey
“It really gave us a boost. I've gotta give our sixth man a big round of applause, because the fans have been there and the students have been there all year supporting us. When the momentum swung, they really helped carry us through.”
Ed Hickey
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .”
Dale Carnegie
“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”
Judy Garland
“A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.”
L. Ron Hubbard