Detroit Quote by Tom Stanton

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

— Steve Yzerman

In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon…

— Thomas Hauser

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

— Ted Lindsay

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

— Jemele Hill

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and…

— Chuck Daly

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose…

— Dick Schaap

When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the…

— William Klein

Plenty of other franchises have reinvented themselves into winners after hitting rock bottom. The 1976 Tampa Bay team that went 0-14 arguably was worse…

— Jemele Hill

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

— John Thorn

Yankee Stadium played host to the most important prizefight ever when Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in 1938.

— Thomas Hauser

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

— Yogi Berra

I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know…

— Pete Rose