Oakland famous quotes

Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.
-- Amy Trask

#Football #Views #Oakland

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
-- Bill Russell

#Oakland #Library #Cards

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
-- G-Eazy

#Oakland #California #Grew Up

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Writing #Oakland #Use

Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.
-- Hugh Douglas

#Ohio #Oakland #Fans

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Race #Kentucky #Oakland

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
-- Jack Kerouac

#Wall #Oakland #Cities

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
-- Jerry Rice

#Opportunity #Thinking #Oakland

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.
-- Jim Otto

#Oakland #Fans #Loyal

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.
-- Joe Greene

#Dream #Team #Oakland

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
-- John Ensign

#San Francisco #Oakland #Miami

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.
-- Kreayshawn

#Thinking #Oakland #Clothes

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?
-- Mary Roach

#California #Clothes #Oakland

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.
-- Nick Swisher

#Spring #Oakland #Afternoon

The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state. Compared with other cities, adoption of the proposed
-- Randy Hamilton

#Oakland #Cities #Adoption

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.
-- Rickey Henderson

#Oakland #Uniforms #Colorful

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
-- Rickey Henderson

#Baseball #Home #Oakland

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.
-- Sandy Alderson

#Baseball #Mcdonalds #Oakland

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

#Oakland #Cities #Atmosphere

I was born in Oakland and grew up, probably about five miles from Oakland, in Hayward. And Hayward was OK. Like, Hayward wasn't - very much a working-class area and had definitely went through a decline and is now, seemingly, coming back around, which is nice to see.
-- Mahershala Ali

#Nice #Oakland #Class

Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.
-- Pedro Noguera

#Teaching #Oakland #Skills

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
-- Tamaryn

#Jobs #Rap #Oakland

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.
-- Boots Riley

#Oakland #Ideas #People

The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there's so much culture around. It's a competitive city, it's full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.
-- Adrian Marcel

#Passion #Artist #Oakland

I'm not afraid to have the ratchet side because that's a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am from Oakland. But at the same time, there's still a classy side to me that I've seen in Oakland as well.
-- Adrian Marcel

#Oakland #Ratchets #Sides