"I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it.""

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Frank Deford

#Basketball Quotes #Writing Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.”

Source : "Jorge Posada Talks Fenway Franks, Booze - and Cameron Diaz". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.grubstreet.com. June 7, 2011.
“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. Itâ€™s by giving those people a service thatâ€™s better than what theyâ€™re receiving from the pirates.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.”
“I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.
“To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.”
“There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.”
“Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again”
“Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.”

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