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

- Frank Deford

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

- Frank Deford

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

- 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 on a new team. You should stick with th…

- Frank Deford

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

- 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 make any difference whether it was fiction or nonf…

- Frank Deford

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

- Frank Deford

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

- Frank Deford

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."

- Frank Deford