I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.
I take real big pride in that. Delaware, the support that I get from Delaware - I mean, there are thousands of people reaching out to me. Whenever I go home, it's just so welcoming anywhere I go, and everybody is noticing me.
When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.
Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.
For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.
I'm pretty crazy about the Yankees. When I can't actually watch a game, I TiVo it. I am also a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't tell many people that because I will get made fun on because I'm from New Jersey!
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I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.
One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.
Buckeye born and bred. Now an H-O-F-er - even after I'm dead.
It was a dream to have a team for the state. While playing for the Punjab King's XI, I used to think of having a team for Kerala.
I don't want people to think I'm not proud to represent Texas.
I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
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.
You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.
Even though I live in New York, I still have this Jersey thing where I feel like I have to prove myself. I'm grateful for any chance I get to be the least talented person in the room, because it'll make me work that much harder.
When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.
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.
For me to be able fight in my home state of New York would be a dream come true.
I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
It's always fun playing in your home state.
