Portland Quotations

During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.

From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

My dream is to get back into the NBA on the back of these games, Portland and Toronto have offered me try-outs.

Portland State will be a great test and conference games are always full of excitement. Portland State has been doing very well with a new coach and we look to knock them off the top of the mountain. Not having seen them play this year, we are doing what we can to prepare both offensively and defensively. Their team is a combination of power and speed and their pitching staff has done really well.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

Portland is a logical choice. Maine is a marine state and Portland is a port city. This effort can highlight the advantages of the city and the development of marine resources can benefit the entire state.

Portland has more work they need to do to become a Major League city, and we have more work we're doing in terms of going to other cities and exploring those cities.

Portland has always been a perimeter-oriented team. It has given us problems because they've been able to spread us out a little bit and really make us pay from the 3-point line. So that's going to definitely be a point of emphasis.

Portland has a lot of talent on their team. Their talent speaks more than their record.

I wouldn't say we had lots of energy but we did a pretty good job on concentrating and focusing on the game, and we held down Portland defensively except for the fourth quarter when Zach Randolph started scoring. I think we held them good. Offensively, we just executed well and didn't give them any chance.

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

Buck influenced a lot of people, from The Beatles to me. Buck and I were in a lot of battles over the years, always on the same side. Over the last few years, we'd become closer. He even flew up to Portland to see me when I opened for Dylan last year. We were outlaws together.

From the softer ad market and the organizational changes in 2005, Fisher is poised in 2006 to capitalize on an attractive business structure going forward as well as other opportunities such as the recent Seattle Super Bowl (that pitted the Seahawks versus the Pittsburgh Steelers) carried on our Seattle and Portland ABC affiliates.

What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.

Having the Blazers in Portland is important to the whole region and the state. The economic impact the Blazers organization has is very significant. And when you think about their payroll and what taxes they pay locally, it's a huge factor.

We look forward to traveling to Portland to play against the Timbers. Our organizations have always enjoyed a great relationship, which can only be bettered by meeting one another on the field.

I actually grew up in the city. I was born in Portland (in the country), but I was brought to the city ever since I knew myself at a tender age.

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

I was living in Portland and had no idea that he was having a problem. I didn't even know. I think the person he has always been, deep down, came back.

Kohl?s is now the darling of the limited-line and middle-market type of retail. They?re aggressive and certainly doing a lot in the Portland areas and looking into Eugene. If they?re looking at Eugene you can almost be assured they?re looking at Medford.

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

Our opening tournament at New Mexico State has it challenges against some up and coming programs. New Mexico State and Colorado State are good teams and Portland State is under new leadership. UT-San Antonio led the nation in home runs last year. Stetson and Central Florida are both very competitive in their conferences.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

It doesn't matter who's on the other side of the field, you have to come out and play. Against Portland State (on Friday), I don't think we gave up, but I don't think we had the spark we had in the first game. I want to keep putting them out there in tough situations, and to know we can get back-to-back wins, it's a big step for us, right this second, and we're taking baby steps.

I was really lucky that Coach Hargrove took a chance on me because I feel like Portland has been a great fit for me.

We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon Zoo.

With the success of LIVESTRONG Ride Portland in 2005, we learned that these regional events have the ability to bring together entire communities in support of cancer survivors. Expanding to five cities this year will help the LAF bring its message to an even larger population. We anticipate that the series will grow each year, expanding into even more communities and enabling more participants to support people affected by cancer and to celebrate survivorship.

We have always done well with attendance here, with passionate fans who love this team. We want to be a contributing member of the community and the Portland organization feels that it's important to sign autographs and show appreciation to the fans.

We had some good players, we had some good guys on the team, but some things kept happening time after time and that's all people talked about, ... The things that they did, the dysfunctional things that happened, a lot of that became a part of the Portland Trail Blazers, and that was unfortunate.

We've conclusively linked Dee Creek Farm's raw milk with the E. coli 0157 H7 outbreak that occurred in the Vancouver and Portland area.

With a local perspective on the Portland market, we believe we can quickly improve revenues at the hotel following the implementation of our proprietary management and marketing systems.

We are excited to be able to bring some closure to one of New England's most mysterious shipwrecks. The story of the Steamship Portland and its fatal last run from Boston to Portland, Maine, has intrigued maritime historians for years due to the wide-ranging reported sightings of the ship during the storm. This mission allows us to start putting some answers to the questions about its loss.

The Portland Police Traffic Division will be especially looking for individuals who attempt to drive while under the influence of alcohol.

We wanted to be mentally focused. We didn't want to give Portland a chance to get back in it. We did a great job of closing it out.

We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.

The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.

There is no hotter team in our league now than Portland State.

The Red Cross has assisted more than 55 families who have arrived here to the Portland area by their own means. As disaster survivors, they are eligible for Red Cross assistance. And we anticipate more coming.

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

This was a perfect night in terms of execution. We scored goals early and stayed patient, even when Portland State kept lots of numbers in front of us. Getting three goals on 10 first-half shots is very efficient and I was pleased with the way we controlled possession in the second half.

We're very much looking forward to training in the U.S.. After speaking with officials at Sunderland AFC, we're aware that the Portland Timbers will provide our team with a very tough test.

Downtown Portland has been absorbing office space for about two years now.

Each time one of those (milestones) happens you appreciate it more because you know when you look back how much effort went it. I have been really blessed to be in two great situations in Portland and the last seven in Sacramento.

There was a lot of concern about the damage the ivy was doing, particularly out of the Portland metro area.

There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'

The story of the Steamship Portland and its fatal last run from Boston to Portland, Maine, has intrigued maritime historians for years due to the wide-ranging reported sightings of the ship during the storm. This mission allows us to start putting some answers to the questions about its loss.

The template for success in the NBA changed from the Portland model of 1999-2000, when I got to the league, to the Detroit, San Antonio, Miami model. Although we have succeeded on the court to the point of five straight 50-plus win seasons, we certainly didn't do it 'the best way.' We did it the most expensive way. It cost us flexibility and created lots of bad habits. That was my mistake, and it ended up costing us Mike (Finley).

The thing about Graham, and I told him this the first day of camp, is when we played Portland last year, he was the one guy we focused on trying to make sure he didn't score. We thought he was the most important player. He's very strong and he plays with a force. I couldn't understand why his numbers weren't higher.

Coach Portland is a phenomenal coach. To me she'd be like another mother. The assistant coaches and the players, I love them to death. I wouldn't want to be with any other group of people than them.

A lot of it was Portland working very hard. They won the races, they won battles. We were just kind of standing around watching them. Our goalie (Dustin Slade), great performance by him.

Almost, Maine is the best single-ticket-selling show in the history of Portland Stage. It did indeed sell out during its four week run in our season. We, unfortunately, were unable to extend because of its position in the season, but would have loved to do so. Audiences were charmed by the intimate, funny scenes. Many remarked that it was great to see small town U.S.A. reflected so clearly on stage.

They give chances all night long. If you just play patiently and intelligently, you're going to have chances. Bury them, and you'll win games. We didn't do that. Portland plays a wide-open game because they've got prolific scorers. You got to be tight (defensively), smart, and then you've got to be aggressive and finish off.

There were no deal discussions. It was very much an introductory meeting. It was 'getting to know you' day. We got to meet people and talk to them and learn more about Portland than what you can read about in the paper and in typical analyses.

There's an opportunity to kind of go, 'OK, we're finally home,' and Portland State, they did a nice job (in a 41-14 season-opening loss) against Oregon State.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

Supporting the projects and institutions advancing open source software and hardware helps ensure the continued success and advancement of open source technologies. The teams at Oregon State and Portland State have done great open source work in the past, and we're excited to back their joint efforts.

Once Rene Portland receives the papers, we can then start to subpoena former players.

Not only does the University of Portland deserve a winner, it can win.

The kids got to play against teams from all over the country, from Portland to Miami and L.A. to Vermont. They were always willing to hop in the van and head out to play.

I made it clear that I expect to see them all at the next Portland concert. I told them I'd provide the earplugs.

I'm truly honored to be a part of the Portland Pirates Hall of Fame.

I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.

I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella.

I have to give a lot of credit to Portland State. I knew it was going to be like this. I knew it was going to be harder that people anticipated.

In the Portland and Salem metropolitan areas, motorists are paying new, all-time high prices for a gallon of regular. The same is true in neighboring Vancouver, Washington.

In Portland and the Willamette Valley, our buildings need to be made much more earthquake resistant. California has had almost 100 years to prepare after the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Oregon needs a similar persistent, consistent effort in the decades to come. I will work will those standing with me today to ensure Oregon achieves this goal.

It has cost me a small fortune but most people in the music industry have a bad habit of some sort, ... I buy everything I can get my hands on that I don't have, usually as it's released. With touring you get to visit so many stores in different towns it works out really well. At Midnight Madness this past April, I rushed to a Toys R Us and Wal-Mart straight after our show in Portland and spent a couple of grand on the new stuff. The bus is usually packed with boxes by the end of any tour and I become pretty unpopular for hoarding all the cupboards.

Because Coach Portland thought that I was gay, I was treated in a very demeaning manner, ... Coach Portland created an offensive, hostile and intimidating learning environment for players she believed were gay. She created divisiveness on the team by instructing players not to associate with other players she believed to be gay, or they would be kicked off the team also. Coach Portland's final insult was to exclude me from the 2004-2005 Awards Banquet, which all of my 2004-2005 Lady Lion basketball teammates were invited to attend.

Certainly when I got the Portland job, there wasn't as much hoopla as there is here, ... I've spent time here. I've lived here. I grew up basically here. There's going to be a little bit more hoopla than there would be someplace else.

By sheer coincidence, Morris Dees was in San Diego working on the Tom Metzger case, ... I heard he was in the same office building where I was working. I wanted to introduce myself to him, so I strolled down and said hello. I told him, 'I know this is a Portland case, but if you need any help in San Diego, let me know.'

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

Portland is where young people go to retire.

I figured the area needed it. There really isn't much in the area, and you'd have to go to Bangor or Lewiston or Portland to get (such flags).

I don't want to take anything away from Portland because they did what they had to. But that was an awful performance. We should collectively be embarrassed.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money,

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

The crowd was great last year. Playing in Portland is always incredible. We got our first road trip out of the way and I think the guys are excited to go home.

The change really started with the closure of the naval base in 1997, and the closure two years later of the Royal Naval Air Station. Portland had for years been seen as a dumping ground for social problems and the housing was not considered up to much.