Dan Gilbert

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino. ”

Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%. ”

Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more. ”

As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else. ”

I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there. ”

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure. ”

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things. ”

We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too. ”

People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.' ”

People still don't know how good Kevin Love is because he played in Minnesota... you didn't see him much on TV. His passing, his knowledge of the game - the stuff that doesn't show up in the stats - he has so much going for him. ”