147 Quotes by Frank Deford

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.'

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.