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The odds that Mars will crash into the Earth are about as good as the Detroit Tigers winning the 2003 World Series in four games.

It's like, I guess, the Detroit Red Wings get those calls in their building.

It's not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never lay down, and I'm very proud of them.

Everyone is trying to dodge certain teams. No one wants to play a Detroit or a Miami in the first round because they want to get to the second round.

Everyone knows that when San Antonio and Detroit play, it's going to be a battle on the defensive end. The thing that we wanted to do is really concentrate on rebounding the ball and not let them get second-chance opportunities.

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.

That first season is over with. Now we get to start and we get to try to win two games at home to get to go to Detroit and play the best game of our life and that's really all we're focused on now.

It looked like Studio 54. Detroit looked like a real city.

It's disingenuous to speak to the media to try and suggest that Proof shot first. There are ways to determine what shots were fired and by whom. There's an ongoing investigation. Until all of the factual evidence has been evaluated, an opinion by the Detroit Police Department is premature.

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.

I've just missed being able to get outside and watch a game. It's a lot cheaper and more convenient to go here rather than Detroit to watch the Tigers.

It was a great trip. Obviously, we are a bit disappointed, we would have liked to play Detroit a bit better than what we did. Hopefully we can go home and all start getting healthy and make a stretch run for the playoffs.

It was actually very sad. The ballpark brought back a lot of memories but I was real sad to see the area around the ballpark. The surrounding area really went downhill since the days I was there. It used to be a great area for things to do. Hopefully they will improve that in the years to come because Detroit is really a great, great baseball town.

It won't be a record year in 2006 in Detroit as Northwest and others continue to adjust their capacity. The planes that are in the air will be packed, but you can bet the passengers numbers will be down because of fewer flights.

They are just on fire. They beat Miami and Detroit so they are probably the hottest team in the league right now since New Jersey lost their winning streak. People were counting them out and I believe they can make the playoffs.

They are going to numerous chambers of commerce in Ohio and Indiana, among others. We even have a request from Detroit Metro Airport. The Michigan Department of Transportation, the next time they make a pickup here, will bring them to all the welcome centers across the state.

They just felt like I wasn't in their plans at that time. Detroit has given me an opportunity, and I'm taking full advantage of it.

They've really helped us ever since we moved to Detroit so we're really excited and happy for them get second. They've worked so hard. They're an awesome team and they're great people.

They've made enough putts that we could pave the road from Detroit to Chicago. They want to beat us bad and this happens in the Ryder Cup.

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 want to spend time with my fans. This team made a big commitment to sign me here. I have to return that. I have to be here. I have to spend time with my teammates, with the fans, with all you guys. I need to do that. Detroit has a lot of good fans.

A Chilean subscriber in Detroit would see a local ad, not an ad for a supermarket in Santiago.

That's a great hockey team. Beating that team in a playoff series is obviously a great accomplishment for our hockey club and we know it's a surprise to almost everybody outside this dressing room. We knew we matched up well against Detroit and we were able to do what was necessary to get through some tough patches and prevail in the end.

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.

I'm not saying I completely agree with him, but Detroit should be the favorites because they went to the Finals two years in a row and they won a championship. I can't disagree with him on that. I think there's no doubt one of our biggest concerns is playing as a team. We know we have a lot of individual talent. It's a matter of playing as a team. I give him credit for calling it how he sees it.

I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be in the mix. At this stage of my career, I have to find ways to connect. Detroit is an easy connection for me.

I'm definitely rooting for Detroit just because of that. You want to have any advantage you can.

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.'

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

In Birmingham, in Bloomfield Hills and all these places they do more meth, they do more ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together.

In Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and all these places, they do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together,

If Mr. Ford didn't own the team, the game wouldn't be in Detroit -- you can be pretty sure of that. It's out of respect for him, his long-term commitment to the game and what he's meant to the league.

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.

I'm not surprised. I watched him play in the world championships last year, and all I hear from Detroit is how great he's been playing there. He's an excellent defenseman and what a game he had tonight, coming in first game like that.

If you can imagine us being as healthy as Detroit or San Antonio or Phoenix, I can only imagine what our record is.

If you don't really play hard, you have no chance. Can we be the kind of defensive team San Antonio or Detroit are? No. I don't think we have the personnel. Can we be a good defensive team? Yes. I really believe we've lacked the commitment in terms of effort and the toughness in terms of having a mind-set and a trust.

If you put a Super Bowl in Detroit in January, it does have a big positive benefit to the city - a significant fraction of those who attend and spend hundreds of bucks a piece wouldn't be there otherwise. But if you do the same thing in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, you're just displacing people who would be there anyway.

In some cases, that might be OK because they might not feel any pressure. Especially when you have an opponent like Detroit. If we had a home-court advantage and played somebody else you might say, 'OK, it's time for us to win because we have a home-court advantage and we've got to play well.' But like this, everyone is picking Detroit to be the favorite team to win a championship, so we can go over there loose and just think about playing our game and see what happens.

In order for E85 to take hold, you have to have gas stations and cars that can handle it, ... It requires Detroit to build cars, which they are beginning to do.

I really wanted this game because we were playing Detroit and because we really let a win slip away against Milwaukee (on Wednesday).

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s, ... There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I know Detroit lost to Charlotte so we have our own destiny in our hands. We still have a chance. We're still alive.

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 haven't even thought about what next year holds. I've only thought about what Detroit holds, Sometimes I want to beat him. But it'd look bad. You're not supposed to beat the elderly.

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.

If you want to get a problem solved, the first thing you have to admit is that you have a problem. The city of Detroit is teetering on bankruptcy.

I guess they thought it was only fitting that on the road back to Detroit for everyone to wear Jerome's Notre Dame jersey.

I just think it's destiny. God looks out for good people. Jerome is a good citizen, and he's a benevolent person in the community. It's destiny for him to start in Detroit and end in Detroit.

I really appreciate the fact that people have gotten together in the city of Detroit and have really supported me in this, more than I expected. People all over the world.

Cadillac said we could all fly out to Detroit and give input as they start putting together their hybrid models and the way they would be presented to the public?. Artists and corporations working together, that's the 21st century. That's the true Age of Aquarius. But John's ego wouldn't let him see it was a good thing to do.

By then they will most likely have got settled somewhere else. Unless they have strong family ties, there may not be much incentive to return. Working as a taxi driver or a hotel cleaner in Detroit is much the same as in New Orleans.

But when you find someone working on the assembly line at General Motors is making more than a Detroit policeman, you see that support start to decline.

Because the city of Detroit hasn't covered this up, maybe there's a possibility that they'll come forward and attempt to resolve this matter.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

I don't know if it was a Detroit hangover, but we were not ready to go. I thought we lost the game in the first period.

I didn't sense our guys tightening up on offense. I think Detroit just tightened up defensively.

I didn't sense our guys tightening up (offensively). If anything, Detroit tightened up defensively.

Certainly, today's cars are technologically superior vehicles, but they don't capture a person's imagination, you don't form an emotional bond like the cars of the past, ... When you're out on Woodward (in the Dream Cruise), you're seeing American iron from the '50s and '60s. There's a romance about the cars. It recalls the glory of Detroit and the glory of the industry.

Chicago to Milwaukee, Detroit and Cincinnati are the most popular runs.

By that time, we'll either be right there with Detroit, maybe a little ahead of them or in a really big hole. I think we're more confident going up there than we have been in the past. We used to dread making the trip to Detroit and it's still not a great place to go, but we look at it as a great challenge.

By failing to require Detroit to make significantly cleaner, more efficient vehicles to compete with Toyota, the Bush administration is giving the Big Three enough rope to hang themselves.

One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.

I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

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

If I do get picked it would be a great honor, but other players are having really good seasons. I think they should take a lot more guys from Detroit than they usually do. Everybody knows Ben Wallace, but they should take at least two more from that team. If that happens, I won't mind getting the rest.

If I'm anybody else, I feel I can beat them. They are a better team, but I feel I can beat them. Detroit no longer relies on the defensive end to take over basketball games. Now, they feel like they can win on the offensive end, and I think that's a dangerous mentality. Defensively, you can be consistent.

I certainly appreciate all that the Ford family and Matt Millen did for me. I learned so much in Detroit and I will always value those relationships and that experience. At the same time, I am eager to get to work with my new team, whether that happens in a day, a week or a month.

Ice is pretty expensive, but it's a lot more expensive in Chicago or Detroit than it is here. So, we can get a lot more ice time, and they can practice more.

I don't think there have been many seasons when the same city had the dominant team in both leagues like Detroit has this year. It'll definitely be an interesting run and a wild party in Detroit if they can pull it off.

I don't think Detroit was ecstatic when they won a division. I don't think San Antonio is going to be excited when they win theirs. . . . This is just one step.

For the Detroit area people, this may be the first time they've been above the bridge.

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

Detroit is full of talent.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

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.

The market changed as it often does. Frequently, that means Detroit gets left behind. It never fails.

The hybrid Mariner is the right idea at the right time. To regain its competitive edge, Detroit must come to grips with how high pump prices have put consumers in an entirely new mindset. This vehicle proves that a determined Detroit can win this race.

The hurricane really unmasked racial concentrations and poverty that are already recognized in cities like Detroit and Newark, ... One principle of the rebuilding must be an all-out effort not to replicate the mistakes of the past that created the hyper-poverty in the city.

You will be the first face many people see. I look forward to showing the world what Detroit is all about.

The drug pipeline brought the problems of drug addiction, crime and violence from the busy streets of Detroit directly onto the quiet streets of Venango County, and today's arrests are aimed at shutting off that pipeline,

The Detroit Tigers were always No. 1 in our city. We used to just open the gates and people would come in. So I'm not happy with where we're at right now.

The Detroit thing is such an aberration. It's easy to say they have no starting All-Stars, but they have four All-Star caliber players. Those remaining seven guys that are voted in by the coaches -- I think that means more, quite honestly.

The Detroit Pistons should be far above the marketing of this stuff.

The Detroit Pistons had to go through it. The Lakers got beat by Boston several times. The Bulls had to get beat before they learned how to win. It was real good that our guys went as sophomores (in 2004). It really helped and you could see it.

The Detroit games were great to talk about, but it doesn't make any of the other games less important.

The Detroit fans treated me great. I was glad to see they knew my name.

The difference between what Detroit goes through and what Toyota goes through is that for every single problem Toyota has, they put a team on to fix it. Detroit pretends it doesn't exist.