I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.