Quotes About Belonging

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.

For those of you who aren't aware I am Jewish, the name might have given it away, and there were no other Jewish kids on my football team, so it was an adjustment for me because the kids didn't exactly love the fact that there was a Jewish kid taking their spot.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

I've gotten so into the thing of moving, moving, moving, but I'm desperate to have a home. I just want my own little spot - I'm saving, but it's difficult because of the shopping... I'm actually addicted to online shopping - it's something about the packages arriving!

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

Music is music, and we all have a spot and a place to enjoy it.

Things are bigger than basketball. The Spurs are great at helping you know that you're not just at the gym every day to throw a ball around, but you're here to represent.

I spent so long at Spurs that it's my club. If I was to become a good coach then that would be by DNA with the way they play and the way they go about things.

San Antonio is more of a home than anything to be honest. They saw me as a huge part of their organisation to continue this Spurs culture and that's nice to know, and that's something I'm really keen to do.

The values I have as a person are the same as the whole Spurs organisation and that's why it feels like home.

The more you play, the more you feel part of the squad, and then, in turn, you end up playing better. I think it's a psychological gap as well - if you don't think you're a first-team player, then you won't be.

All I want is to be just another member of the squad and fight for a place in the side.

No matter what squad I go to, I always feel I can add something to it.

A small squad means everyone feels part of it and integrated.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

St. Louis is home, so if anybody has anything bad to say about my home I'm going to be there for us.

St. Louis still is going to be a special place for me, whether I'm playing 3,000 miles away or 5,000 miles away.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I think we need to show people that they have a place in the Democratic Party, whether they come from San Francisco or St. Louis.