You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn,… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'.… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs.… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager,… — Frank Deford Copy Share
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… — Frank Deford Copy Share
Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences: That's television.… — Frank Deford Copy Share
I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it wasn't as… — Frank Deford Copy Share
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who… — Frank Deford Copy Share
The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win. — Frank Deford Copy Share
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… — Frank Deford Copy Share
I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I saw him - and Wilt was not… — Frank Deford Copy Share
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… — Frank Deford Copy Share
Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger. — Frank Deford Copy Share
If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens… — Frank Deford Copy Share
That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in! — Frank Deford Copy Share
To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a… — Frank Deford Copy Share
When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't… — Frank Deford Copy Share
