Detroit Quotes

• Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Nhl, Cities

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• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  Ted Nugent

  Player, Guitar, Years

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Soul, Earth

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• There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

  Elmore Leonard

  Ocean, Views, Cities

  "We’re Not in New York Anymore" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2014.

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• When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.

  George Clooney

  Fighting, Winning, Cities

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• Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.

  Darren Walker

  Opportunity, Cities, America

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

  David Letterman

  Havens

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

  Eminem

  Smooth, Rough, Talkers

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

  Marvin Gaye

  Heaven, Hell, Marvin

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• Let Detroit go bankrupt.

  Mitt Romney

  Conservative, Conservative Values, Values

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 19, 2008.

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• 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.

  John Lee Hooker

  Night, Bars, Remember

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• 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?

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Important, Arbors, Hometown

  "Mayer Hawthorne: Soul Singer Does Michigan Proud" by Kelly Frazier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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

  Kristen Bell

  Country, Heart, 8 Mile

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

  Smokey Robinson

  Courses, Havens

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• Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

  Obie Trice

  Hip Hop, Mecca, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

  Ernest Gellner

  Paris, Car, Obscurity

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• All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

  Eminem

  Rap, Race, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ted Lindsay

  Hockey, Cities, Six

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• Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

  Chuck Daly

  Sports, Two, Guy

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• I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Team, Player

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• I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

  John Engler

  School, Wish, Failing

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• I care about the children of Detroit.

  John Engler

  Children, Care, I Care

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• There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Team, Years

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• 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.

  Rick Danko

  Records, Way, Chance

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