Hometown Quotes

Words cannot describe what we felt in terms of the support we received the night after Mike's passing... A number of people made a special effort to be there that night and express their deepest sympathy. The outpouring of cards, e-mails, and phone calls received here and in his hometown have been incredible. - Jim Richards

When you have distractions, and I'm an expert on that from this season, it's tough to get everybody thinking positive. It's tough to get 19- to 20-year-olds to concentrate on the task at hand when so many people outside the program -- whether students, media or people from your hometown -- are talking about, 'Is your head coach going to be there.' Now the focus is really on the team. - Matt Painter

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. - Sam Ewing

When that final buzzer went off, that was just pure joy, indescribable joy. It just overwhelmed me. I looked at my father, he was smiling, crying. My mother, they were all crying. It was like a dream come true. I used to dream about that when I was a little kid, in front of my hometown, home fans, my family, it's indescribable. - Lamar Butler

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. - Masaharu Morimoto

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. - Krysten Ritter

When I graduated from college, I had to come to the realization that if I wanted to live in my hometown, I was going to have to pay $2,500 for a month in rent. That was a real shock. - Sean Fallon

When I found out you have to send the team out, I wanted that honor for Jerome. It's his hometown, and if we all come out, everybody is going to have to look for him. - Joey Porter

We've come a long way. As a woman I'm proud. As the mother of three girls, I'm proud. In 1984 when I was competing, not many girls did a lot of sports. In my hometown there weren't many female athletes training 35 hours a week. Today it's just natural. - Sylvie Bernier

We've always let our guys like Miguel play toward the end, but not the whole season. They all want to play for their hometown teams down there. So we oblige within reason. - Jim Fleming