Frank Deford Quotes

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

It is absolutely essential that bank supervisory bodies have the enforcement tools, the independence, and the political support to take tough enforcement measures when they are needed. Everything else—more uniform accounting standards, improved disclosure, and risk-based supervision—will count for little if supervisors lack effective powers of enforcement and the will to use them.

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

When you're single, you're not beholden to anyone, and you can shut down more easily. In the past, I had the idea that I'd live in a caravan with a dog near a pub with no responsibilities. But now, when bad things happen in the world, I feel responsible for them because they're going to impact on my daughter.

I don't interfere with regulators.

Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.

If I wrestle in 2020, I want it to be my own decision and not the IOC's.

I have always said that I am a friend of VAR.

I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.

I have always tried to be myself on the pitch and probably my biggest pleasure is when fans of other teams come to show me their respect.

It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.

And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.

I don't really trust the NFL.