City Pride Quotes

Do I want to be in St. Louis forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in St. Louis, and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 million or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.

I love L.A. I'm a full-blown cheerleader for it.

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

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

It's the people that I see every day in Baltimore that motivate me.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

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.

I love Chicago.

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

My family has been in New Orleans longer than the American flag has flown over the city.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

I want to bring a world title back to Liverpool and I would love to defend my world title in my own city.

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.

I got love for my Philly people. Those fans are about as crazy as you'll find anywhere.

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

Anybody tells me I get a chance to rep Houston, I'm gonna rep it proud. It's all I've been wanting to do forever.

I'd love to bring a championship here to Portland.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.