Famous Quotes & Sayings

I didn't sense our guys tightening up on offense. I think Detroit just tightened up defensively.

I didn't sense our guys tightening up (offensively). If anything, Detroit tightened up defensively.

Barry Trotz

I don't know if it was a Detroit hangover, but we were not ready to go. I thought we lost the game in the first period.

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.

Mark Steyn

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Smokey Robinson

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

Roger Penske

You will be the first face many people see. I look forward to showing the world what Detroit is all about.

David Healy

Detroit will slap on big incentives, and we'll be back to normal.

Rick Carlisle

Detroit played great. They really hurt us on the boards. We didn't play a good game and they had a lot to do with it.

Shawn Horcoff

Detroit is very much a team you can't give space to in the neutral zone.

Detroit is our weakest market and upstate is second, ... We try to operate at a 95 percent occupancy level and we haven't seen that for a number of years in upstate

Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.

P. J. O'Rourke

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Scott Skiles

Detroit has its own agenda, which is to rest its guys, and Washington has the motivation, which is understandable. So is the Orlando-Indiana game. That's part of it. That's why you play all 82 (games).

Scott Skiles

Detroit has great players. I never thought there would ever be a day that I would vote for a whole starting five to be on the all-star team, and I did. They have great players and a great team.

Detroit has been tough to promote, but Vegas has been way hot.

Scott Skiles

Detroit had their own agenda, which is to rest their guys, and Washington had motivation so that is understandable. That's why you play all 82.

Michael Imperioli

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Larry Alexander

The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were welcoming, happy and proud of metro Detroit as their hometown.

Roger Penske

A lot of people in Detroit are waiting for it to snow so they can show us that they really are ready.

They had to go from Shanghai to Narita, then Narita to Detroit, then Detroit to Albany.

Howie Long

There's a lot more wrong in Detroit than Joey Harrington, but as you know, it does fall on the quarterback. ...

Jamal Crawford

There was a lot going on at the end of the game. Antonio in the stands was scary, all you could think about was Detroit and Indiana when that happened.

Mack Strong

I've seen a lot of years that were very challenging. A lot of turning points, a lot of lessons learned over those years. But I can tell you with all honesty, with all my heart, it's been worth every second. The feeling I have right now, getting ready to go to Detroit to play for a world championship ... it's just tremendous.

Rick Carlisle

The second and third quarters hurt us defensively. We struggled and had some stretches where we couldn't stop them. Detroit is a team that is going to do a good job in the last play type of situations, but I'm more in tune to what happened in the second and third quarters than on the last play.

Think about George W. Bush. When he walks into a room, he seeks out the males. He winks and nods at them when he talks. It's similar with Kilpatrick. Many in Detroit feel that, whatever his flaws, he understands them.

Ben Wallace

The thing that he didn't show in Detroit was the passion for the game to want to go out there and want to dominate the game.

Rebecca Hall

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

Eminem

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

Teams that have good quarterbacks, I like to watch. I don't get to see Detroit a lot.

It's pretty ironic, but Kevin Colbert was in Detroit when we were in Detroit and then he went to Pittsburgh. I'm pretty sure that's a big reason we're all here.