Frank Deford quote: "To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game."

Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Ba...
FRANK DEFORD

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ...
FRANK DEFORD

Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in br...
FRANK DEFORD

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

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be es...
FRANK DEFORD

Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even readin...
FRANK DEFORD

I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I sa...
FRANK DEFORD

The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garde...
FRANK DEFORD

The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good fo...
FRANK DEFORD

Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and...
FRANK DEFORD

Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ch...
FRANK DEFORD

Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's te...
FRANK DEFORD

It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Inte...
FRANK DEFORD

In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor...
FRANK DEFORD

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

Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should ...
FRANK DEFORD

We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning's pa...
FRANK DEFORD

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, ...
FRANK DEFORD

By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports...
FRANK DEFORD

You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the ...
FRANK DEFORD

How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a...
FRANK DEFORD

In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at ...
FRANK DEFORD

Once again it is peaceful at Augusta National Golf Club, after some rather ugly stand-offs in recent...
FRANK DEFORD

'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
FRANK DEFORD

When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just co...
FRANK DEFORD

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. Th...
FRANK DEFORD

That's what makes them so perfect -- they were two different sides of the same coin,
FRANK DEFORD

I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down wit...
FRANK DEFORD

The Masters is not greedy. You wanna buy a Masters souvenir logo shirt? Sure, let's go over to t...
FRANK DEFORD

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule...
FRANK DEFORD

There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There...
FRANK DEFORD

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marque...
FRANK DEFORD

If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck w...
FRANK DEFORD

Those of you doing that with the Samaritan Center, ... I salute you.
FRANK DEFORD

When I was covering games, and this is back in the '60s, you'd go into the manager's off...
FRANK DEFORD

And that, in turn, has been superseded by, 'In your face.'
FRANK DEFORD

Hard as it is to believe, there were three magazines fighting over me. 'Newsweek' wanted to ...
FRANK DEFORD

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity ...
FRANK DEFORD

Gamesmanship has come to replace sportsmanship all too often,
FRANK DEFORD

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

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, inco...
FRANK DEFORD

We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kap...
FRANK DEFORD

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cinc...
FRANK DEFORD

More and more teams are, in the vernacular, 'going small,' with only one big man down deep. ...
FRANK DEFORD

It's interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to t...
FRANK DEFORD

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal o...
FRANK DEFORD

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are s...
FRANK DEFORD

I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the O...
FRANK DEFORD

Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked th...
FRANK DEFORD

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also...
FRANK DEFORD

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.
FRANK DEFORD

I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful ...
FRANK DEFORD

It's been a long time since I covered games,
FRANK DEFORD

Instead, it's, 'Let's do Bill Parcells again.'
FRANK DEFORD

I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,
FRANK DEFORD

... proud though I may be of my profession, it never occurred to me that it was meant to be a workin...
FRANK DEFORD

An American Summer.
FRANK DEFORD

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex rack...
FRANK DEFORD

I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with...
FRANK DEFORD

He just left me high and dry with a leaking roof ... We paid good money, and now I've got to pay ano...
DEAN DEFORD

It just ticks me off. I never in a million years thought it would happen to me.
DEAN DEFORD

After Wilma came through, the whole bed was just soaked.
DEAN DEFORD

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA

The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA

Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK

We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK

YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK

I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK

We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK

I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK

Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK

I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER

Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA

I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK

Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK

When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his ...
GARY FRANK

The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around...
GARY FRANK

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin...
GARY FRANK

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of ...
GARY FRANK

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. ...
GARY FRANK

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got ...
FRANK QUATTRONE

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until i...
FRANK YERBY

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over h...
FRANK MILLER

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the la...
FRANK TEBBETS

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
BARNEY FRANK

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the fi...
BARNEY FRANK

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation an...
BARNEY FRANK

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
BARNEY FRANK

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ...
BARNEY FRANK

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people ma...
BARNEY FRANK

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
BARNEY FRANK

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b...
BARNEY FRANK

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily ...
BARNEY FRANK

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share...
BARNEY FRANK

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help peop...
BARNEY FRANK

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
BARNEY FRANK

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perf...
BARNEY FRANK

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANK

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produ...
BARNEY FRANK

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the R...
BARNEY FRANK

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and th...
BARNEY FRANK

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they w...
BARNEY FRANK

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
FRANK ROONEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
FRANK GEHRY

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the sam...
FRANK MILLER

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it an...
FRANK ABAGNALE

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wis...
THOMAS FRANK

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yoursel...
FRANK ABAGNALE

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o...
FRANK BLACK

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the g...
THOMAS FRANK

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc...
FRANK QUATTRONE

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
FRANK SINATRA

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
FRANK SINATRA

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chanc...
FRANK SINATRA

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
FRANK SINATRA

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...
FRANK SINATRA

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, ...
FRANK SINATRA

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
FRANK SINATRA

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
FRANK SINATRA

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm hone...
FRANK SINATRA

Don't get even, get mad.
FRANK SINATRA

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
FRANK SINATRA

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate...
FRANK OCEAN

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
FRANK OCEAN

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
FRANK OCEAN

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me...
FRANK OCEAN

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
FRANK OCEAN

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
FRANK OCEAN

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
FRANK OCEAN

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
FRANK OCEAN

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past ...
FRANK OCEAN

I'm not a centerfold.
FRANK OCEAN

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not b...
FRANK OCEAN

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's...
FRANK OCEAN

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be ...
FRANK OCEAN

I'm big on what's in good taste.
FRANK OCEAN

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
FRANK OCEAN

You can't think; you just gotta do things.
FRANK OCEAN

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story,...
FRANK OCEAN

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
FRANK OCEAN

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

Frank Deford

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