Neighborhood Loyalty Quotes

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

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

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

In Tiger's Bay I saw trouble I shouldn't have seen. But 95% of the people there are good and they're coming out to support me - just like in New Lodge which is the opposition or whatever you want to call it.

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

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.

I am who I am, a Southie.

Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.

My main focus, my pride is right there on the block. That's where I've always played and my focus has always been.

My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like us.