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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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!
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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.
