Top 131 Cleveland Quotes

I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. And I’ll tell you a real quick thing: we didn’t have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team.

If not for food stamps, Medicaid, and various job programs, I would never have gone on to be the first in my family to go to college, the first black woman to represent my ward on the Cleveland City Council, and, ultimately, a State Senator.

There are a lot of great people in Cleveland. It’s a great town.

Cleveland has been my life.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

During Grover Cleveland’s second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President’s mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland’s upper left jaw and part of his palate.

People, when they sent me to Cleveland, what they expected was for Shawn to go to Cleveland and us to lose, you know what I’m saying? It’s not going to happen.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

You look at my career, everywhere I went – Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly – they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That’s where my family is. That’s where my roots are.

I don’t spend the whole off-season in Venezuela. I spend a couple of weeks in Cleveland, go to Florida, take my son to Disney World. But I still have my home, and my whole family lives in Venezuela.

Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It’s a special honor.

Cleveland’s a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They’re loyal and hard-working, and they’re loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.

It’s easy to dismiss Cheeseburger. You look at him as a guy who is 5’8, 125 pounds, very inexperienced. I know not to judge a book by it’s cover, and if a kid with those dimensions is willing to get in the ring with me and Kazarian, you know his heart is the size of Cleveland.

I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle ‘Caldonia’ Young – she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.

No, I don’t think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.

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

I’m a Cleveland guy, man. I love this city.

I know companies in Cleveland that could make the suits and the other things that Donald Trump has outsourced.

Cleveland is always in my heart.

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.

Chrissie Hynde’s from Ohio, and so am I. If there’s a Cleveland sound, that’s what it is.

When I was drafted in Cleveland, I wanted to turn this team back into a perennial playoff contender and to win the Super Bowl.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

Honestly, I think, as an artist, it’s everything that’s in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, ‘My home is Cleveland.’

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my ‘ancient,’ ‘beautiful’ origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.

People move from Cleveland, then move back. It’s something inside you. You can’t explain it, but there’s something inside – it’s just home.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.

We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it’s LeBron or anybody that contributes.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

I’ve never been a bandwagon Clevelander. I’ve been talking about Cleveland and holding up Cleveland since before we were champions.

One day we’ll have championship boxing in Cleveland and people will support it.

The Cleveland Browns fans really are the greatest fans.

I was a LeBron fan, wanted him to stay in Cleveland for the hometown team, but he made a decision for his family. You’ve got to respect that.

I like being out there. I’ve done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.

I’m convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.

If I go anywhere else and win a championship, it’s not going to be the same. I want to win a championship in Cleveland. That’s where I want to stay. I love Cleveland.

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George ‘Hound Dog’ Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he’d seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it’s my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men’s national team around when they play whenever I can.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would’ve been in Minnesota.

I’ve said this about many people, but when you were recruiting against John Beilein you knew it was a fair fight, a real fight and he was going to do it the right way. I have a lot of respect for John. He’s a heck of a coach and he will do a great job in Cleveland.

In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised to use the government to protect ordinary Americans, and to stop congressmen from catering to wealthy industrialists.

I’m from Cleveland. I love this place. I’m never going to leave.

I’ve always liked the history of the game of football, and then, when you mention the Cleveland Browns to me, it brings back vast memories, and I can’t just wait to try to build and establish this thing and just move this thing forward.

In Cleveland, I was a young rookie. I was trying to be like the veterans when I wasn’t a veteran. That was definitely the wrong way to go about things.

I’m not going to be happy until Cleveland wins a Super Bowl.

I’ve always loved Cleveland.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren’t one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn’t think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn’t sure it was going to happen for me.

Unless you’re from Cleveland, northeast Ohio, you really don’t understand. It’s a sense of pride that we have. You just kind of root for the teams in that area.

If Cleveland takes me No. 1, it would be a great opportunity, first of all, and that goes for anyone taking me in any position.

My priorities are to continue to fight for manufacturing in my state and for jobs and health care and deal with lead issues in my beloved city of Cleveland, where I live, and every other city in the industrial Midwest.

It seems like all of my biggest life events happen when I’m actually at home in Cleveland around my family.

There were so many wonderful opportunities for me growing up in Cleveland. And whatever I’m doing in New York or Hollywood, I meet people from Cleveland.

My biggest interest of being the No. 1 pick, obviously the pressure that comes along with that, I would love to have that pressure on my shoulders because I’ve always thrived in those situations, and I feel like Cleveland would be a great spot to be.

One week after getting married in my thirties – while I was working as the main anchor at the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio – I got fired.