Frank Deford Quotes

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

I guess more than anything, Green Bay just felt like home. You know, small town, good people who love their football... it was a really great experience being a part of that culture.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

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.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.

I'm a London boy, born and bred, and I'll be there for as long as I can.

I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

Memphis don't bluff. It's a tight knit community.

I just wear the uniform of the city I'm from.

I can't let Chicago down. I got to put on for my city.

Anybody tells me I get a chance to rep Houston, I'm gonna rep it proud. It's all I've been wanting to do forever.