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Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum.
- Frank Deford
#Generation
#Listening
#Momentum
#Sports
The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.
- Frank Deford
#Book
#Personal
#Should
#Strike
#Zone
More and more teams are, in the vernacular, 'going small,' with only one big man down deep. Good grief, the position of power forward is in the process of going the way of short shorts.
- Frank Deford
#Good
#Man
#Power
#Process
#Way
Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.
- Frank Deford
#Baseball
#Follow
#Judges
#Law
#Remember
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
#Back
#Football
#Game
#Great
#People
Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.
- Frank Deford
#Before
#Best
#Bowler
#Football
#Woman
It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.
- Frank Deford
#Football
#Game
#Know
#Long
#Wisdom
You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.
- Frank Deford
#Beer
#Nobody
#Precious
#Sports
#Stand
It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.
- Frank Deford
#Honored
#More
#Now
#Sports
#Stars
The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.
- Frank Deford
#Body
#Man
#Old
#Schedule
#Smile
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
- Frank Deford
#Best
#Blonde
#Champion
#White
#World
Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I bid you goodbye and take my leave.
- Frank Deford
#Children
#Goodbye
#Leave
#Listening
#Me
First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.
- Frank Deford
#Bad
#Fans
#Game
#Sports
#Television
So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
- Frank Deford
#Educated
#Fraud
#Never
#Sports
#Worst
I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.
- Frank Deford
#Business
#Never
#Right
#Vision
#War
Once again it is peaceful at Augusta National Golf Club, after some rather ugly stand-offs in recent years, when the club balked at changing its all-white, all-male membership tradition. African-Americans and female Americans are on the club manifest now along with other golf-Americans, and all is serene once again.
- Frank Deford
#Club
#Golf
#Serene
#Tradition
#Ugly
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
- Frank Deford
#Believe
#Doing
#Good
#Humor
#Pain
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
- Frank Deford
#Company
#Confederate
#Five
#Statues
#VA
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
#Alone
#America
#Sports
#Stand
#Winners
Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.
- Frank Deford
#Bill
#Russell
#Sport
#Which
#Whole
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
- Frank Deford
#Eyes
#Light
#Memory
#Pilot
#She
'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
- Frank Deford
#America
#Good
#Morning
#Television
Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
- Frank Deford
#Beauty
#Behold
#Majesty
#Thing
#Whatever
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
- Frank Deford
#Brain
#Good
#Medical
#Result
#Science
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
- Frank Deford
#Bad
#Doing
#Game
#Independence
#Judges
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