I remember a show in New Jersey several years ago when a big fight broke out in the crowd. I took the microphone and introduced Frank Sinatra. He wasn’t there, but even the guys creating the disturbance stopped to look.
Of course, I’ve been a Knicks fan growing up, always rooted for the home team. But I really can’t see myself in a Knicks jersey – only because I’ve been in one jersey.
I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says – it makes me choke up – it says, ‘I’m a Jersey tomato’… I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it.
We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.
In the first 20 years of my acting life, I did not do any acting. All I did was to wear a jersey, dance, lip-sync to songs, and run after girls over mountains and in the snow.
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore – I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
The way I became ‘Lil Tracy’ was Nedarb was throwing away his old clothes, then there was this old Tracy McGrady jersey. I put it on and I was like ‘I’m Lil Tracy!’
Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.
I’m excited to wear my country’s jersey.
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I’m from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
We want to say to everyone: New Jersey’s a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.
The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, ‘With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.’ But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.
What we need is a program in South Jersey that allows local veterans to go to doctor’s offices and hospitals here in our region to get treatment.
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
When I got the call of being drafted by the Devils, I was in shock more than anything. I didn’t have a clue where New Jersey was, but it was just nice to be taken in the first round and nice to know where my future would be, which organization I was going to be a part of.
I’m from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday’s and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday’s, it seems like everyone’s on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.
As long as I’m playing at a high level, and I deserve to be out there, then I’ll always put that U.S.A. jersey on. There’s nothing better than that, no matter how many times you’ve done it.
You’d get ready, wash your jersey, and go out and support your darling team.
The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.
For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.
I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier – I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
Many people don’t know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is – drum roll here – Newark.
I was shocked cause I didn’t even know that they made my jersey. I didn’t know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, ‘Did they customize that?’ And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must’ve made them overnight or something.
I could be anywhere in the country, and people will ask, ‘Are you from Jersey?’ I’m proud of that. We’re a weird breed.
My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.
New Jersey makes important contributions to the space program. We want to make sure it just doesn’t happen in Houston.
I took a job at a factory in New Jersey to try to save money to go to Europe. When I took the job, I set a date for quitting. I was going to hitchhike around, be a hippie, see the world. I just wanted to be responsible long enough to get up the money to get there and trip around.
Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it’s always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.
I’m not going to be the guy that says, ‘I’m the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.’ I’m not going to be him. I’m going to do my job.
For people to want my jersey, I’m honored and blessed.
Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey’s home.
I did ‘Jersey Shore 6’ sober, and you really just concentrate on yourself and just being the best person that you can be or be better than you were the day before.
I’d love to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I’m a South Jersey kid, and I was very excited when the Phillies won the World Series, and I’d like to stay home.
I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.
I don’t apologize for looking after New Jersey’s interests. That’s an obligation that I’ll always keep.
My parents couldn’t afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school. I learned how to dance in heels, which means I can walk in heels. And I’m from Jersey, and we are really concerned with being chic, so if my friends wore heels, so did I.
You see, one of the things about being a Housewife, and a New Jersey Housewife in particular, is that most of the drama seems to happen behind the scenes when the cameras aren’t around.
Growing up, people will tell you that you have a better chance to become an astronaut than becoming an NBA player. So when you finally get to the NBA, you’ve beat the odds. So when you put on that jersey, everything else is downhill.
I’d literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday’s in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
I’ve gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It’s like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital – it’s the center of all of it. Musically, it’s incredible.
I love track racing and I’m proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.
We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.
My rookie year, Byron Scott didn’t really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn’t really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.
And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn’t do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn’t believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?
In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I’ve always wanted to do it.
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect – or the lack thereof – because I live in New Jersey.
My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.
