147 Quotes by Frank Deford

At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire. Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain.

... proud though I may be of my profession, it never occurred to me that it was meant to be a working majority, ... That more than half of young men in TV would want to cover sports has the same ring to it as if we learned more than half the males in medical school wanted to concentrate on cosmetic surgery.

That's what makes them so perfect -- they were two different sides of the same coin,

It really surprises people, and I understand why, but that was probably the easiest book I ever wrote, because it was simple narrative,

It's been a long time since I covered games,

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.

It was a great tragedy ... an athlete dying young always sets us back. We see them as so strong and handsome. We don't think they'll crumble.

Gamesmanship has come to replace sportsmanship all too often,

I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,