Coliseum Quotes

• It was electric. When Death Valley is rocking, it seems as if it might actually take flight. On Saturday, I went back to Baton Rouge to see Alabama barely beat LSU, and was, once again, reminded that Tiger Stadium is the best place in the world to watch a sporting event. ... I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this.

  

  Wright Thompson
  • World
  • Saturday
  • Places

• When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

  

  Art Shell
  • Attitude
  • Presence
  • Stadium

• I just want to get back to the point where ... when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. And we're going to play in Black Bottom - we used to call it Black Bottom back in the day, now they call it the Black Hole. That's our home field. That's our home. You can't come in our back yard and win.

  

  Art Shell
  • Home
  • Black
  • Black Hole

• I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event.

  

  Wright Thompson
  • Events
  • Watches
  • Places

• We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

  

  Athenagoras of Athens
  • Killing
  • Rejected
  • Coliseum