Frank Deford Quotes
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.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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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.
