Local Reputation Quotes

The people of Baltimore are great. I love Baltimore. What I looked forward to, every year, was getting a new apartment in a different part of town and hanging out. People started to see you in the character that you were, so everyone thought I was real police.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.

People are just not impressed by me at home.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.

There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players to come out of the area; I was the best player in high school. I was Player of the Year four straight years for the state. As a freshman, I was State Player of the Year; I was Mr. Everything, so I was a phenom.

When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the world. They care if we are the best in town, or not. That's what I want to be.

If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

In Germany I am not so famous.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

It seems I am more beloved on a reality show from an extended cable network than I am in social circles in my own city.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.

I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.

I want people to know me in my home state. I want their approval.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me 'Smooth.'