Quotes About Community

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I met this director who told me, 'Listen, I really think you could be on Broadway.' And I was like, 'No, that's crazy.' I didn't believe it... I was 9, maybe 8 years old at the time, and I was like, 'No. No way.'

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

I love my home state and my hometown. I'm so grateful to Birmingham and Alabama for what it made me.

I thought about the problems I had growing up: how I prioritised football over school, but people were telling me I wouldn't make it, that it wasn't possible. The thing is, I did make it, thanks to my own will and determination and the help of some people I had around me in my hometown.

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.

Cleveland is my hometown.

Of course, having that confidence of having the fans behind you in your hometown is always special.

Sometimes you realize you don't give people in your hometown enough credit.

I think everybody, from whatever town they're from, knows their hometown commercials.

People saying I want to come here, who doesn't want to play for their hometown? That's a dream come true, if you're a kid growing up on the outskirts of L.A., to be the man in your city.

I feel like a Nice citizen: it's my hometown. I come back to the city to spend time there because it's in my DNA.

I am hated in my hometown.

Tacoma is actually my hometown, but if you live within 40 minutes of Seattle, you say Seattle.

If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.

When your hometown appreciates you, it means a lot.

I'm very proud to represent my hometown, my country.

Homeland Security is hometown security.

To win in my hometown is just a whole 'nother level.

Walking into my hometown where I grew up with crowds of people waiting for me to get pictures, it just didn't seem real.

As a basketball player, you dream of being able to play in front of your hometown. And if you're lucky, other guys from your city are right there beside you.

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

I love those moments - the homework, the school run, when I get to chat to other mums. That's real life.

Honestly, I usually have way more guy friends than girlfriends.