Hometown Hero Quotes

I've always wanted to win in my hometown.

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

[Referring to Calvin Coolidge:] He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont.

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

These other cities, soon as I walk out, they going crazy like I'm a boy band. But Houston people are chill. We can see Beyonce and be like, Aight cool.

I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.