Frank Deford Quotes

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

It's not my future, but it's NASCAR's future, to make sure that we take events to the biggest metropolitan areas of the country, regions of the country.

We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.

By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Large profits mean large payrolls.

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.

I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.

A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.

I see huge potential for the league and also for America.

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.