Detroit Sports Quotes

#1. You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

Steve Yzerman

#3. But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Rick Snyder

#4. Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. "Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease," Luke read aloud. "Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

#6. This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

Arthur Machen

#7. There is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born - making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could be me or any other girl.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#8. This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.

Aragorn

#9. I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Gordon Taylor

#10. If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

Winston Churchill

#11. My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. Eyes aren't good liars.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#13. Be the determining factor of your success - define it and own it

Joe Evener

#14. The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Blaise Pascal

#15. Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Doug Collins

#16. 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

#17. In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

William Baldwin

#18. There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number ... are borne on far out into space.

Epicurus

#19. I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Gerald R. Ford

#20. Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

Amos Elon