Tony Gonzalez Quotes

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

LA is the only place where people know my name and still walk up to me and ask it. And I think that was really representative of a lot of the transplant people in LA. I just found everything so phoney.

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

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

Whenever I am in U.P., I feel as if I am at home.

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

I get homesick - I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London.

If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.

I am grateful to God for that because people can still identify me with something in Germany.

You need to take pride in where you're from.

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