Frank Deford Quotes

#1. I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Frank Deford

#2. The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

Frank Deford

#3. I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

Frank Deford

#4. But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

Larry McMurtry

#5. She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Frank Deford

#6. I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

Frank Deford

#7. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.

Frank Deford

#8. We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Dorothy Day

#9. Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Frank Deford

#10. If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

Frank Deford

#11. If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

Frank Deford

#12. Sometime you have to think deeper before you want to think about something.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Frank Deford

#14. Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.

George Herbert

#15. You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Frank Deford

#16. So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Frank Deford

#17. Blondes are like left-handed athletes, they all get a second look even if they don't deserve one.

Frank Deford

#18. I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

Hosni Mubarak

#19. In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

Frank Deford

#20. I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

Frank Deford

#21. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

#22. I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.

Frank Deford

#23. I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

#24. I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.

Frank Deford

#25. To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.

Frank Deford

#26. There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

Lancelot Hogben

#27. Love is my religion. It does not condemn. It does not judge. It does not betray. It does not begrudge. It does not war.

Steve Maraboli

#28. It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.

Frank Deford

#30. I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.

Jonathan Nolan

#31. I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Jaron Lanier

#32. I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?

Frank Deford

#33. Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Frank Deford

#34. I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Ralph Ellison

#35. It is frightening to feel that all your happiness is bound up to another person. That without them you don't - you don't particularly want to live'.

Victoria Clayton