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My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

— Jim Leyland

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Kid Rock

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.

— Art Modell

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

— Joel Edgerton

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

— Ted Lindsay

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

— Big Sean

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

— John Lee Hooker

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

— William Clay Ford, Sr.

I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent.

— Daniel L. Doctoroff

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

— Ryan Gosling

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

— Buzz Aldrin