She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. Frank Deford Read Quote
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, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them. Frank Deford Read Quote
Don’t dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin. Frank Deford Read Quote
What we accepted as great art – whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony – is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind. Frank Deford Read Quote
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don’t go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that ‘homecoming.’ Frank Deford Read Quote
The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners. Frank Deford Read Quote
If you’re a father of a child who dies, it’s an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who’s in the same position as my daughter was, there’s no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could. Frank Deford Read Quote
Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game. Frank Deford Read Quote
Since too few Americans go to the polls, I say what this country needs is a bobblehead election, where voters will get free bobblehead dolls of their choice when they show up and vote for president. Frank Deford Read Quote
