Hometown Quotes

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down.

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.