Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis O'Hare

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

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.

Bernie Bickerstaff

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

Shaun Alexander

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

David Hall

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

Ndamukong Suh

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.

Anna Sui

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

Douglas Brinkley

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

Big Sean

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.

Bob Berg

(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 there's also differences between Detroit and Chicago.

David Maraniss

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

David Letterman

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Deion Sanders

I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.

I thought Detroit played very good defense, ... They picked up our picks and screens, and then, once we got behind, I think our players were just trying to do too much by themselves.

Gordie Howe

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.

He's going to be in Detroit this weekend. When he arrives we expect him to sign the standard player's contract.

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

Roger Penske

There are a lot of people in Detroit that are waiting for it to snow to show that we are ready. We've talked to the weatherman for the last week and a half. It's a good news-bad news story.

Bill Wilkinson

We are excited about hosting the CHA tournament, ... Detroit is a great location for the teams' fans and parents to travel to.

Our guys have heard a lot about their guys and (Brandon) Graham (the Detroit News' No. 1-ranked player in the preseason) and it kind of gets in their heads.

Our ultimate goal is to get to Detroit again. I like that stadium. It's a pretty nice stadium.

Outside of Detroit -- and outside of the gulf region -- there are signs that the economy is still doing very well.

I think he just needs a chance. He's a very skilled player, but he hasn't had much of an opportunity. He was the No. 2 pick in the draft and Detroit took him for a reason. Sometimes we just pick guys who take a little longer.

Dan Rooney

I think he could run for mayor of Detroit - and probably win.

Daunte Culpepper

You always want to be looked at as one of the best, but now it's about championships, and I haven't got one. I want to end the year sitting up in Detroit after we've won the Super Bowl.

It doesn't seem long ago to Detroit and that stunning performance by Bernhard Langer's team,

Mike Ilitch

The Detroit Tigers were always No. 1 in our city. We used to just open the gates and people would come in. So I'm not happy with where we're at right now.

The Detroit games were great to talk about, but it doesn't make any of the other games less important.

Justin Verlander

The Detroit fans treated me great. I was glad to see they knew my name.

The difference between what Detroit goes through and what Toyota goes through is that for every single problem Toyota has, they put a team on to fix it. Detroit pretends it doesn't exist.