Baseball Quote by Frank McCourt

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

— Colin Farrell

I lived in Cleveland for a summer when I was 12, and I was a ball boy for the Browns, which few people know.

— Casey Wasserman

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it…

— James Cagney

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

— Jake Paul

As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.

— Ronan Keating

What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople.

— Shane Lowry

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with…

— Jeff Greenfield

I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton - all the…

— Laura Whitmore

I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.

— Frank McCourt