Frank Deford

Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like…

— Frank Deford

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

Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences:…

— Frank Deford

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

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

— Frank Deford

If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

— Frank Deford

The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.

— Frank Deford

I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take…

— Frank Deford

I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I saw him - and Wilt…

— Frank Deford

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…

— Frank Deford

Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger.

— Frank Deford

If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the…

— Frank Deford

That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!

— Frank Deford

To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or…

— Frank Deford

When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to…

— Frank Deford

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung…

— Frank Deford

I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and…

— Frank Deford

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or…

— Frank Deford

The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the…

— Frank Deford

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not…

— Frank Deford

Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's…

— Frank Deford

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

— Frank Deford

I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people…

— Frank Deford

First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game…

— Frank Deford

Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest…

— Frank Deford