Local Connection Quotes

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

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

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.

I frequently visit Ahmedabad. My sister lives here.

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.

I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.

Just to know that the people in my city are really rocking with me, I just love it.

Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

A lot of people talk about what the 1982 team did on the pitch but that side was so dear to Brazilian fans also because it featured players that supporters would see in flesh and bone on a regular basis, either at games or even on the streets. Now they basically only see the Selecao on the TV.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.

I lived in Barueri for a long time, and now I live in a city close to Barueri, so it's like my backyard.

I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.