Quotes About Community

All through Miami, the guys who grew up with me hitting at the place I hit, they all call me Flaco. Nobody calls me J.D. It's like, 'Hey, Flaco.'

I grew up in Miami, Florida.

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

I can't say I've always been a Miami Heat fan, but ever since I got down to Miami, I'm a fan of many Miami teams.

Everybody rips on Miami fans all of the time. We're a loving people. You know, we like to go out and we like to party and we like our sports and entertainment.

I love Miami and would love to always be in Miami.

The Miami Heat represent the city of Miami.

I don't know all the inner workings of the Miami Dolphins locker room, but I do know the pain of being different, the sadness that accompanies not fitting in and the hopeless feeling of having no one to turn to, because it's part of my story as well.

Miami has a big Argentinian, how you say, society, living here, so I meet them everywhere.

It's great to work with a group from Miami.

In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.

On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

When I go back home, I feel like Michael Jackson in Memphis. They love me.

The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.

Together we can build the Michigan we believe in, because we still have what we need most - the strength, the talent, the vision and the grit of the incredible people of this state.

People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.

Detroit's really important to the success of our state. You know, you can't have a successful Michigan if the biggest city isn't a success as well.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

Michigan State means so much to my life and me.

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.

I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it doesn't look like the Michigan that I think of when I talk about my pride.