I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you’re the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, ‘Well, he’s only there because of his connections,’ or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us. Frank Deford Read Quote
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 if you had to drag the words out of my vocal chords. Frank Deford Read Quote
I’m a writer. I’m moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on ‘Real Sports,’ I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that’s still my first love. Frank Deford Read Quote
Nothing made me happier than to hear from literally hundreds of listeners who would tell me how much the commentaries revealed about a subject they otherwise had never cared much for. Frank Deford Read Quote
That’s the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, ‘Hey, Bubba.’ That means I’m in! Frank Deford Read Quote
If I come on three days after the Super Bowl and say pretty much what everybody else has said, what’s the point? That was the tricky thing… coming up with a new angle every time – or most times, because you couldn’t bat a thousand. Frank Deford Read Quote
I don’t think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don’t think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we’re envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal. Frank Deford Read Quote
Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and I’m thinking, ‘A thousand dollars to see,’ I said, ‘There’s no ballgame in the world worth that kind of money,’ and yet the attendance for sports is more than it ever has been. Frank Deford Read Quote
I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we’d get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can’t do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports. Frank Deford Read Quote
