Top 230 Oakland Raiders Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
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.
Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.
I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.
The Raiders hit straight up. And thats the way we expect to get hit.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.
I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.
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.
'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.
When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.
It's great because growing up, especially being a Raiders fan and then playing with Marcus, I was like, 'Holy smokes, that's Marcus Allen' when I first walked in and saw him.
I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.
I don't want to prove the Raiders wrong. I just want to prove the Cowboys right. They traded for me, and I'm going to be a good player for them.
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.
The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.
My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!
The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Whenever anyone asks me what I did in the service, I just tell him I was a member of the famed 'Remington Raiders.'
Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.
Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.
Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.
When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.
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.
Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.
George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.
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.
Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
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
A man's life breath cannot come back again--
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
I grew up in Oakland and for a long time I was the only white kid in school. Then I moved to the suburbs when I was in junior high and it was mostly white.
When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.
I'm a suburban mom. I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan.
You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
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.
You don't know, at the beginning of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' that you want Indy to use a whip, but you damn sure know at the end that you loved it. It's cool, and you don't know why.
One of my good buddies is Marcel Reece with the Raiders. He's a big 'Triple-D' fan; he's a big food fan.
In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.
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 loved 'Planet of the Apes,' and I loved 'Star Wars,' and I loved 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' and to me, the goal always was to work on something as cool as that.
As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.
I grew up in Oakland, California, and there was a really active scene in the Bay Area. Everyone else knew it as the 'Hyphy Movement' of Mac Dre, E-40, and The Pack.
With the Raiders, you walk a little bit of a fine line. It's hard to be objective, and it's hard to be critical.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
