David Cone Quotes

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

It's just good to be back in the locker room.

Each player has one place in the world where he is happy, and as a result, he plays well. My place is Anfield. Every game I can play there, I feel good.

Fabulous is familiarity.

Acting with people whom you know is like being with the family. It is a comfortable ground.

I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.

For me, coming to the national team is like coming home.

When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

I hang around a core group of people, a small group of people. They've been around me for a long time. They know my personality. They know me in and out, same as my family.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

I'm a creature of habit and prefer spending time with the people who matter to me.

Work and friends keep bringing me back to Chennai.

My parents are still here in Charleston, and I have a lot of family here, so it's great to be back.

It was really cool coming back here to Chase Field. I played here in high school and went to a lot of games as a kid.

I think I'll always consider the Quad Cities home.

As a player, you have to see what's out there. But, at the end of the day, I knew Atlanta was my home, and it's where I wanted to be.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

There's some teams - the Cubs are one of them - where there's just too many fans.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.