Chris Crutcher Quotes

I miss high school football.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

In Prosper, the city shuts down and everybody goes to the games... Everything shuts down. You're idolized around there... Texas high school football - it's a lifestyle. It's a culture.

I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.

I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I grew up in a tiny town in Texas, so I understood the world of high school football.

Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.

In Massillon, you either hated football, or you loved it. On a Friday night in the fall, I don't know what anybody did if they weren't at, quote-unquote, 'The Game.'

There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.