Kenny Smith Quotes

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

I've always just considered myself a New Yorker, you know.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

It won't matter who starts and who plays, the most important thing is the Egyptian national team and we will do our best.

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

Rose Park is a community I'm very proud to be from.

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.