Best Detroit Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I love that about Detroit. It has a lot of energy and culture to it.”

“I want to stay in Detroit, for sure, but Detroit ain't waiting for me.”

“Let me say this and be very clear about it: there's nothing quite like your relationship in your first job with your best player. When I was in Detroit, Jerry Stackhouse and I were very close.”

“I used to watch old game tape of Detroit, the 'Bad Boys' club.”

“For anywhere - not Los Angeles, not Miami, not Detroit, Milwaukee - I think for LeBron, and for most athletes, the most important thing is about winning.”

“Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.”

“The things that we did in Detroit will never be done again. Our record of holding seven teams under 70 points will never be done again.”

“I like Detroit.”

“I've played in Detroit so many times; the only thing I can say is that the crowd has been very responsive to me. They've always shown a lot of love.”

“The car culture is part of living in Detroit.”

“Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.”

“I have a really good relationship with a lot of people in the music industry from Detroit. They're very kind when it comes to us stepping into their field or what they do and they're really willing to help out and help you get better at what you're trying to do.”

“I would definitely pick Flint over Detroit any day.”

“As a Black man, you are living in a place and you are constantly unsafe. And we go to these bastions of safety: Harlem, you can call that a haven; the South Side of Chicago, you can call that haven; Detroit, you can call that haven.”

“Honestly, Detroit really wasn't on my list. I really didn't look into it much until I sat down with my brother and looked at the roster. It was kind of a perfect fit.”

“I'm from Detroit, but Chicago is a second home for me.”

“Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.”

“Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing.”

“Detroit's really important to the success of our state. You know, you can't have a successful Michigan if the biggest city isn't a success as well.”

“'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are.”

“I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and raised.”

“Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start speaking in Spanish to my uncle and my grandmother because we didn't understand.”

“Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.”

“People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.”

“One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was like my childhood home and my second home.”

“As a kid from Detroit, I played whatever sport was in season: football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it was. I was an active kid.”

“What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.”

“I played Sky Masterson in 'Guys and Dolls' at St. Ignatius. I walked out onstage at one point looking for Nathan Detroit, and I'm supposed to say, 'Has anyone seen Nathan Detroit?' But, instead, I said, 'Has anyone seen Sky Masterson?' I immediately realized what I'd done, so I said, 'Wait a minute. I'm Sky Masterson!'”

“I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.”

“I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It's kind of like why I got into comedy.”

“There's no place I love more than Detroit.”

“My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.”

“I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA.”

“I usually get so warned when I go to Detroit, like, 'Oh my God, don't go to this section, don't go to that section.' I've never had any issues in Detroit. I love that there's enough of a racial mix of people to make fun of. I've always had a good time there.”

“People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.”

“Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.”

“I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.”

“My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra.”

“Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.”

“I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.”

“There aren't any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn't play. Sometimes you have to go through that at different stages. I went through it during a tough period, my first year in the league, but it was a good year for me off the court.”

“I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.”

“I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.”

“We are valuable. Detroit and other neighboring communities are places to invest in, not rob.”

“I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.”

“It's my job, it's my role, it's my mission, it's my dream to have everyone who has Michigan ties - whether you went to college in Michigan, whether you grew up in Michigan, if you've ever heard of the state of Michigan - to do what you can to influence the students of the Detroit metropolitan area.”

“I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.”

“Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.”

“I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn't go online.”

“I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.”

“When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.”

“I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.”

“By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.”

“You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.”

“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?”

“It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.”

“From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.”

“I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.”

“Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.”

“Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.”

“I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.”

“Detroit is full of talent.”

“Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.”

“If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.”

“People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.”

“In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.”

“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.”

“I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through.”

“I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.”

“I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.”

“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”

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

“Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.”

“I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.”

“Every time I come to Detroit, I feel the same energy every time. The people are vibing. They're outgoing and loving. They're solid, and a lot of people aren't like that. They're honest and real from the jump.”

“I was born and raised in Detroit.”

“Detroit will always have a special place in my heart.”

“Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.”

“I'm going to try my best to do everything I can for Detroit.”

“I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?'”

“When I was with Washington, Portland, Detroit, everybody still got love for me and I still got love for them.”

“In Detroit, at least in my household, you might be poor, but you better be honest. You work for what you get.”

“I like Detroit a lot.”

“I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.”

“I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.”

“Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a lot of other places in the country. I will never forget that. It's a home away from home. I love it.”

“When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.”

“The city of Detroit is always home, and I'm very proud of where I'm from.”

“I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.”

“Some of the friendliest, friendliest people you're going to meet are going to be in Detroit.”

“Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.”

“As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.”

“I've had some up and down years, but my fondest memories are of Detroit.”

“I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.”

“Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.”

“I care about the children of Detroit.”

“Detroit are just rabid, rabid fans. They'll let you know if they're not happy with something. They're a hardcore group of people.”

“Man, I love Detroit.”

“Detroit is extremely artsy and you might not think that before you actually get a chance to be here for a little bit, but it's really artsy.”

“It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.”