The best Quotes about the Detroit Tigers

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.

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

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've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.