Top 60 Oakland Quotes

At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

The one thing I do know about Oakland fans is it doesn’t really matter where they are, in my opinion, I still feel like they’re gonna be die-hard Raider fans because it’s in their blood, it’s in their DNA.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don’t want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

Oakland’s time is coming. In fact, Oakland’s time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it’s terribly exciting.

As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

In ‘Blindspotting’ I play a girl from Oakland, I’ve got an accent, I’ve got long, ’90s ‘Poetic Justice’ braids, and in ‘Monsters and Men’ I play a girl from Brooklyn.

I think the first big chance I ever got was I was one of the opening acts for UTFO and ‘Roxanne Roxanne,’ that whole thing. And I come on stage, it’s like 5000 people in the Oakland convention center, I’d never had a record in my life, I’d never had anything in a record store.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

Let’s make Oakland a model city.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

Usually on Sundays, I won’t cook because I’ll have dinner at my mom’s. She’s the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It’s a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

As a kid, I wore the same Oakland A’s hat for like six or seven years. It was faded white and green. It was because I loved Barry Zito and he had signed that hat.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I’d be a Hall of Famer. I wasn’t thinking about basketball like that.

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn’t do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

This whole 8 for $8 tour, I handpicked every city, every market on this tour, I handpicked myself. I wanted to go to New York, I wanted to go to Baltimore, I wanted to go to Philly, I wanted to go to Chicago, I wanted to go to Atlanta, of course I wanted to go Memphis, I wanted to go to Oakland.

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye – when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don’t know why.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel – they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

I’m from Oakland and I started doing comedy around 2001.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we’re more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland – and even Texas – are more offensive oriented. We’re a club that doesn’t blow anybody out, but at the same time we don’t get blown out much. We’re in most of the games.

I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can’t wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

I played in Green Bay. I look at their stadium, I look at the Packers Hall of Fame and all the things that go into that experience. I feel the Oakland Raiders are an organization that deserves something like that.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn’t have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

Oakland’s got a lot of character.

One of a handful of films made in Detroit, ‘8 Mile’ doesn’t feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it’s the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.

We all know what Al Davis means to the NFL, what he means to the Oakland Raiders. He is the Oakland Raiders.

The city of Oakland, since I got here, has been like my second family. They’ve taken me in and had my back through the hard times and they’ve celebrated with me through the good times. And so, I love Oakland.

Not too long after ‘OITB’ debuted, I was at NewFest and I saw ‘Black Is Blue,’ a short film by Cheryl Dunye about a Black trans man trying to make it in Oakland. It was the first time I could recall seeing a Black trans man on screen and this was in 2015.

In L.A., like, there’s a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they’re better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it’s not like that.

If you’re from Oakland, and you’re not a Raiders fan, then you’re not from Oakland.

I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

I don’t mind being the voice of the New Oakland to maintain the integrity and edge of it. Old Oakland and New Oakland is one and the same. It’s connected. I aspire to be the bridge between both.

I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it’s a magical city – it’s big, sexy and very ‘cosmo’ with a small-town feel.

When you play the Oakland Raiders when you’re the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they’re going to come out with that mentality that they’re going to win. They’re going to come out fighting. It’s a rivalry game.

I mostly get noticed in shopping malls, airports, red states. The Cheesecake Factory. I am more likely to get stopped in San Antonio or Oakland than in New York or L.A.

Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I’m pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the ‘East Bay,’ Oakland, CA.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.

It’s a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn’t change being from there by any stretch.

It’s hard to find someone who did as many drugs for as long and in such dangerous combinations as Nic – spending years going to Oakland and finding abandoned warehouses, getting beaten up, getting threatened by a guy with a crossbow. By all accounts, he shouldn’t have made it, but he did.

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn’t know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County – except for a small sign that tells you.