Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregg Popovich

If you think about it and look back at the Detroit series, ... we played seven people, period. You have to be pretty fortunate to just play seven people in a series like that, so we can use more people, without a doubt.

I know I can take my kid out to a hockey game whenever I want. I got three (tickets) for $45. You can't get one in Detroit for $45.

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

Tomas Vokoun

You can't stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can't give them 45 shots.

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

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. ...

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.

Todd Bertuzzi

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.