Pittsburgh Quotes - Page 3

• In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Team, Home

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• So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Starting, Fingers

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• On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.

  Peter Karmanos, Jr.

  Hockey, Player, Years

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• Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

  Patrick Roy

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Missing Someone, Missing

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• I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mean, Wonder, Hobbes

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• Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

  Lisi Harrison

  Football, Play, Steelers

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Poet, Smashing

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Today

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Way

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• One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Found, Whole Family

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• I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

  Bill Cowher

  Pride, Long, People

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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Quitting

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• I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.

  Tom Wolf

  Children, Philadelphia, Needs

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014

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• I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

  Barry Bonds

  Remember, Bad Times

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• Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Team, Hell

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• People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Names, People

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  John Pople

  Years, Fundamentals, Return

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• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

  John Pople

  Summer, Children, East

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• I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

  Harold Urey

  Funny, Humorous, Humor

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• It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

  Joe Greene

  Football, Team, League

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• I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.

  Joe Greene

  Records, Want, Steelers

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• Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

  Cam'ron

  Rap, Hip Hop, Bird

  Song: 357, Album: Confessions of Fire, 1998

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