Frank Deford Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

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

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

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