Stefon Diggs Quotes

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

I would love to play for Kerala because there is nothing like playing for a home team.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

Derby born and bred, mate.

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.

I've got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you've got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.

You see guys who are on elite teams. I don't want to do that. I want to create something special here in Charlotte, something that we have never had here before. I want to create some consistency.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.

I don't want to be one of those guys who makes it somewhere and forgets where they come from. Flint is very important to me.

Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.