Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Floyd

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

Obie Trice

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

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.

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.

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.

It's just huge. If Detroit wasn't nervous before, they should be scared in their work boots.

Todd Bertuzzi

It was good Detroit was the next game up, ... These are games we take very seriously.

Jack White

No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Alana Beard

The key to playing Detroit is being ready to play physical basketball. They are very physical, and they aren't going to give you anything easy. We have to be ready to match that.

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.

This is just slapdash, last second, 'Well, we'll run to Detroit and see if they've got some people. It's not a plan. It's not a methodical way to diversify the department.

I hope tonight was an off night. We've been playing well and a win over Detroit would have been huge.

Everyone says look at what 'those people' did to my city. And race is always an element. In 1950, Detroit had a population of 1.8 million; 80 percent were white, 20 percent black. Today the population is 900,000 and those percentages have more than reversed.

Richard Jefferson

It's big. We want to get home court. Detroit has separated themselves from the rest of the league. We can't get Detroit, so let's get the other. It's not too far-fetched.

Howie Long

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

Charles Barkley

This is the most wide open I've ever seen the NBA playoffs. The only thing that would surprise me is if San Antonio and Detroit aren't in the Finals. Anything else wouldn't surprise me.