Athlete Quote by Frank Deford Download Open image “Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.” — Frank Deford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Men Old man Reputation Sports Sticks
As you get older, you get less people to hold you accountable, especially in pro sports. The players have all the power. Unless you… — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and… — Jay Williams Copy Share Image
When you're an athlete who has any notoriety and you make a major change, it's going to circulate and people are going to speculate. — De'Aaron Fox Copy Share Image
A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the… — Johnny Evers Copy Share Image
Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack. — Jeff Galloway Copy Share Image
In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Look at the guys at the the top of the sport, a lot of them are early 30s and that's when they really hit… — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
We get stereotyped so much. Look, people are going to think what they're going to think of me, but if I'm myself consistently then… — Channing Frye Copy Share Image
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion. — J. J. Abrams 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
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 Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image