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Roger Clemens, New York Yankees pitcher "Texas is home. I grew up in Houston. My family and I love it, and we miss it when we're away. As a professional athlete, I'm required to be away from home, and I miss working out and running in the warm climate Texas provides year round. In 1983, after signing to play baseball professionally, I began trying another sport, golf, to relax. My wife, Debbie, bought me my first set of clubs in 1986, and now we both play all over the state we like to call "God's country
Phil Collins "There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie! Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican."
John Connelly "There's no better place than Texas to start over."
Jody Conradt, Basketball Hall of Famer "Athletic schedules require extensive travel. On every occasion, after traveling to hinterlands for basketball games or meetings, when I step from the Austin airport terminal, I am always so glad to be home! It just feels better here, smells sweeter here, and certainly is sunnier and warmer than any other spot in the Big XII Conference– all the time! Talk about a recruiting plus! Inevitably, when we have guests visit from other parts of the country, they are amazed at and enamored of the unique aspects of our state and the wonderful lifestyle it offers. Some never learn to eat (or spell) jalapeños, but they are better for the experience!"
Alistair Cooke "Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states."
Coolio "I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas, because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
Katie Couric "Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts."
Catherine Crier "Texas is a state of mind. The crystal skies and distant horizons change a person forever. Long, open highways spark the wanderlust. When I lived in Texas, I thought nothing of making a weekend run from Dallas through Amarillo to Roswell and beyond…or a dash to the border from my college home in Austin. My best memory is of the overnight cruises when I'd take a break on a lonely stretch of road. Resting on the warm hood, I would drink in the night sounds and smells under an unobstructed blanket of stars."
Davey Crockett [1836] "I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world, the best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.”
Davy Crockett, [1836] "I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle."
Davy Crockett "You May All Go To Hell And I Will Go To Texas"
Justin Cronin "Special Agent Brad Wolgast hated Texas. He hated everything about it. [...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless subdivisions and the Texas flag, which flew over everything, always as big as a circus tent; he hated the giant pickup trucks everybody drove, no matter that gas was thirteen bucks a gallon and the world was slowly seaming itself to death like a package of peas in a microwave. He hated the boots and the belts and the way people talked, ya'll this and ya'll that, as if they spent the day ropin' and ridin', not cleaning teeth and selling insurance and doing the books, like people did everywhere."
Dimebag Darrell "I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."
Richard H. Davis "I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly."
Wendy Davis "Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top."