... 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.
More Quotes from Frank Deford:
I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,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
It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.
Frank Deford
He was the first prominent college player ... the first star to be associated with college, and in that sense he made baseball acceptable,
Frank Deford
It was a great tragedy ... an athlete dying young always sets us back. We see them as so strong and handsome. We don't think they'll crumble.
Frank Deford
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Majority & Minority Quotes, Medicine & Medical Quotes, Work & Career Quotes, Youth QuotesThe ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
Joseph Bologna
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Daphne du Maurier