Quotes About Community

Philadelphia made me who I am.

I'd go around Philadelphia and everybody still loved me. Until the Eagles won, I was the only champ they had.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

I grew up in Philadelphia.

Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.

I love everything about this city, Philadelphia.

Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

I've never been incarcerated; I don't deal with these things on a day-to-day basis in my own personal life, but I have family members that do. I have friends that do. I have people in the city that I live in, Philadelphia, that are dealing with this on a daily basis.

I loved my time in Philadelphia. I loved the fanbase, the people, and they will tell you the same thing.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

Special Olympics is an organization I have done a lot of work with, first while growing up in Massachusetts and then as an NBA player in Philadelphia.

I love Air Force Ones. That's the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It's retro. It's tradition. That's me, old school.

My wife Julie and I are driven to make positive and enduring change in our beloved city of Philadelphia, in California, in Haiti, and around the world.

By the time I was in first grade, we had settled in New Jersey, and that's where I grew up, outside of Philadelphia, right in the heart of Eagles country.

I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.

From the moment I arrived in Philadelphia, the city has embraced me.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.