Frank Deford Quotes

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'

I love playing football, and I'm pretty aggressive on the field. I'm a different person on the football field.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I'm going out there, and I'm going to play football how I know to play football.

I always want to show them I can play football.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

One man with courage is a majority.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

You would not want me on your football team.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.