A Quote by Frank Deford

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

Frank Deford

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Frank Deford
American - Novelist
December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.

Frank Deford

This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.

Carl Honore

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

David Wright

Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

Jerry Jones

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

Phil Jackson

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Calvin Pryor

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

John Leguizamo

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Bryant Gumbel

George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.

John W. Henry

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

Don Andrews

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

Giancarlo Stanton

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

Dave Grohl

No one wants to watch anybody play baseball in a movie. What is interesting is what baseball means or sports in general means to those people doing it.

Wyatt Russell

I'm always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.

Carlos Cuaron

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