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You imagine people are looking forward to it as a treat, ... But the trick, I suppose, is to keep their interest up before you get to the ending.... Above all, you want the main character, Roger Bannister in this case, to be someone you like and you root for.Frank Deford
I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,
Frank Deford
... 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.
Frank Deford
I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful lot of people turn and look at basketball for the first time, if they can do that, I don't think there will be any damage whatsoever.
Frank Deford
One brought himself up by his bootstraps ... the other was born to comfort, a college man at a time when nobody went to college. Each saw in the other the thing he wanted to be.
Frank Deford
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