Frank Deford
Frank Deford
Frank Defordis an American sportswriter and novelist...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 December 1938
luck
So much of life, so much of work, is luck.
hockey fighting two
Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
loyalty team moving
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 the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.
sports running home
To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.
believe wrestling world
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
memories eye light
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
beach animal society
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
covered since time
It's been a long time since I covered games,
athletes celebrate critical everybody hard loves sports
Everybody loves sports. It's awfully hard to be critical of these athletes -- they're young, they're strong, they're beautiful. You want to celebrate these guys.
basic behind bright clever nearly pages sports
Look at the sports pages of the 1930s and '40s. It was all games, basic stuff. Not nearly as much behind the scenes. I think newspapers, the ones that survive, will be the clever and bright ones.
And that, in turn, has been superseded by, 'In your face.'