Frank Deford Quotes

I watch a lot of ESPN. I just kind of keep it on for long periods of time and watch guys yell at each other about sports things.

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

I watch ESPN all day long.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.

My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.'

People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

I like Zach Lowe.

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

I'm passionate about the game - just like the fans are, and I've coached in the league for a long time, so that's the perspective I will bring to ESPN.