Detroit Quotations

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

The perception is that it's not the greatest city, but Detroit is an up-and-coming city. After the Super Bowl is over, people are going to see that it's a lot better than advertised.

We're in a tough deal and we've got to fight our way out of a tough situation. We're celebrating tonight, but we've got to play Detroit in two days. That's not going to be much fun either, but it's an opportunity and you've got to feel that these games are opportunities.

We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.

When we were fundraising to go down to the Detroit area, we figured we had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip. It's four nights in a hotel plus all the means.

We're so influenced by Motown and the mid-'70s and the rock sound Detroit had.

With the significant clutter of all of the advertising in Detroit during Super Bowl week we see this as a way to cut through and deliver our message.

We know we have a target on our backs. Our schedule will definitely help us. We play three teams that were in the state finals last year - Charlevoix (Class C runner-up), Lansing Christian (Class D champion) and Detroit Country Day (Class B champ). We may not run the table, but we'll be better for it when it counts.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

We tried to battle back. Obviously, playing against Detroit down four goals, it's a hard task to do. It's mental mistakes in our own zone that cost us tonight.

We have a number of spots that we're looking for in the Detroit area. There are technical positions that are hard to fill.

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

We're excited to be coming to the Detroit area.

Many of our floral pieces will be created onsite here in Fenton and transported to Detroit by truck. We have to add additional staff for this work. We provide linens, china and stemware for the gatherings.

Since its inception in 1976, the Charity Preview has raised over $58 million to help children throughout the Detroit area. For example, a single Charity Preview ticket provides free transportation to 16 women for prenatal care appointments and well-baby visits.

Most teams have a go-to guy. Detroit has a go-to team.

Mike says when you get to Detroit everything goes by so fast that you really don't even feel like it's real preparation.

Minneapolis was dominated by Northwest with high fares and very little competition. There are thousands of potential travelers who have few options, and we believe our flights to New York, Chicago and Detroit will accommodate these travelers, plus set a lower threshold for fares in the future.

McDonough said, referring to the Hall-of-Fame announcer who spent more than four decades as the voice of the Detroit Tigers. ''I thought I'd be with the Red Sox all my career. Really, it's the only play-by-play job I ever wanted.

My kids' eyes always light up -- 'Why are these people screaming over my mother?' ... People around Detroit have made me cry, just walking up to me in the supermarket to say, 'It's good to have you back.' It's been beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.

My feeling is the entire city of Detroit and the suburbs will be one big party celebrating the Super Bowl.

No deal was made with anybody. Not by me. We took a week because there were no more games for Detroit and we had the opportunity to assess the injury inflicted upon the Calgary player, who did not play the rest of the playoffs.

Obviously, we all know that Detroit is the best team in the East right now. They're playing good basketball. All three teams are trying to avoid Detroit.

Obviously, the biggest target of opportunity is Detroit Metro, ... They have the biggest volume of people going through the airport.

Nobody wants to see Toyota come into Detroit and take it over. But if they bring in money, aren't you going to have to do that? Ford and GM certainly aren't cutting it.

Nothing is going to just stop ... The Lower Woodward Program was really about more than the Super Bowl. It was about the transition of the city of Detroit into something we can all be proud of, to make it more livable and enjoyable and an exciting place to be.

If they're deciding to pass that cost along to Detroit residents, Warren certainly can't dispute that.

If this is my last days in Detroit or not, I don't know. That's really out of my hands, out of my control.

I am looking forward to our continued success and the opportunity to bring another championship to the Detroit Pistons.

(Casinos) have been very good for Detroit if you look at the overall picture.

But what people don't realize is that Detroit is the greatest success story in American history.

But the specific use of juveniles rotating from Detroit to New Castle was something much more organized than we've seen with others.

But there's also differences between Detroit and Chicago.

Based on our review, we believe there's anywhere (between) 600,000 to 800,000 deceased or duplicate names on the qualified voter file. It's not just a Detroit problem. It's a statewide problem. Their maintenance and operation of the file leaves a lot to be desired.

Freddy likes to compete. The Detroit Tigers, to me are the best lineup in the Central, no doubt about it. (Garcia) likes to get himself to the next level. He likes to pitch in big games. You want to face good hitters? You face the Detroit Tigers.

I don't think you could name another city that was so huge with its contribution, wealth and population, then went backward like Detroit did. We went from big to smaller, and now we're building back up. The Super Bowl will change the conversation about Detroit. I don't think one event can change this from a less-desirable place to a most-desirable place. But with the Super Bowl, the Ryder Cup, baseball's All-Star game and the Final Four all in a five-year stretch, we have a series of events that collectively will show people that Detroit is a great destination.

I don't understand how they called that many power plays against us. I don't understand how we're that bad. I guess the Detroit Red Wings get those calls in their building.

I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

Given up for dead a few years ago, Detroit has survived and appears to be coming back the way Cleveland and Baltimore and Pittsburgh came back.

He was the leader of this operation, of this Detroit operation.

He had another incredible play against Detroit on a screen. I've watched all their games and he's great every game.

Hendrix doesn't have the charisma the mayor has, and that's key. But the mayor doesn't have the trust right now. If he can regain the trust of the people, then he can close the gap. Detroit doesn't generally like kicking out incumbents.

He means an awful lot to the Detroit Red Wings. I might dig out some old cards and get him to put his John Hancock on a few.

Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.

We've got to play a very good Detroit team, and obviously, we didn't swing the bats very well in the first two games (in Kansas City). So, righting the ship, that comes over a long period of time.

We thought we had as good a chance as any. I hadn't made any plans for the next few weeks because I had a firm belief that we were going to be in Detroit (for the Super Bowl).

When I played in Detroit on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, we got used to each other, but it took time. And the more we played together the better we knew where each of us was on the ice. Also, the players must have enough time to interact with each other.