Frank Deford Quotes
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Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
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I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.
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Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.
