The best Quotes about the Detroit Pistons

You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

This is the way the game of basketball was played at the time. When you come to Detroit, you will get your ass whooped.

Biden has won so many times in Michigan now.
He's legally required to change his name to Ohio State.

Michigans throw up their right hand to show what part of Michigan they live in.

Michigan's beauty lies beyond the busy city, where the only sounds heard are the shimmering of the trees, and the only sight seen is the beauty of earth's natural creation.

Michigan girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Michigan.

You can leave Detroit, but it will never leave you.

There's cities that get by on their good looks. Detroit has to work for a living.

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

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

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

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

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.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

I'll play the game for free, but you get paid for the bullshit after you leave the floor.

You got the great Michael Jordan, the great Scottie Pippen, the great Phil Jackson. But if you take me away from this team, do they still win a championship? I don't think so. I love Michael Jordan to death. I love Scottie Pippen, all these guys. But they really don't do the things that I do.

Ten time all-star, 2007 league-MVP, 2011 finals-MVP.
One day soon we'll have a statue outside the AAC.
Without question, the greatest player in Maverick's history: Dirk Nowitzki.

Get the ball to Michael. Everybody get the f*ck out of the way!

Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself.

I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

Before a game, I prefer R&B and stuff that calms me down, like The Weeknd.

We feel like we could have been a 60-win team. It's something to be proud of but the work doesn't stop there.

There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.

I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

We went from a shitty team to one of the all-time best dynasties. All you needed was one little match to start that whole fire.

You need a three? Give it to me!

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.

You guys are better people than players - that means a lot!