Voices include Brady Hoke, Al Fracassa, M.L. Elrick, Tom Walsh, Terry Foster, Wojo, a Detroit blogger and a WSU dean.

“Do we have to play better than we’ve played? I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.”
-- Brady Hoke, UM coach on today’s game against Buckeyes, quoted by Detroit News

"Their entire defense takes cheap shots all the time, that's what they do, that's who they are. They're a bunch of dirtbags or scumbags."
-- Josh Sitton of Green Bay Packers, quoted by Free Press before the Detroit Lions beat his team Thursday 

"It is time to give somebody else a chance.”
-- Al Fracassa, retiring after 45 seasons as Brother Rice High football coach, quoted today by Detroit News

"Too many people talk about Detroit as if it’s dead, comatose or so severely crippled that only divine intervention can save it."
-- Tom Walsh, Free Press columnist

 “Detroit right now is also the story of incredible optimism, growth and innovation, experimentation and art like I haven’t seen in 30 years. . . . We need to find a way out of the circular firing squad.”
-- Matt Seeger, WSU dean of arts, quoted in Free Press

“Independent journalism can still make a positive difference."
-- Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker, reacting at our site to Grosse Pointe Park police discipline in case he broke 

“I don't know what's more pathetic: that Dancing with the Stars results was the top story on the Detroit Free Press website or that the Detroit Police Department is bragging that we've gone 36 hours without a homicide or non-fatal shooting?”
-- M.L. Elrick, Fox 2 reporter, on his Facebook page

“I am so lucky. I am sitting next to @bobwojnowski at the game. Could somebody pinch me? This can't be real. He is my hero”
-- Terry Foster, Detroit News columnist, tweeting  from Lions game

“@terryfoster971 Get away from me. Security! Security!”
-- Bob Wojnowski, fellow News columnist

“Is [Dan] Calabrese really arguing that making a part of the city attractive to middle-class residents is a bad way to attract middle-class residents to the city? Yes, he is.”
-- Jeff Wattrick, commenting at our site about a Detroit News blogger 

Graphics by Lauren Ann Davies