Frank Deford Quotes

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.

No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

The national pastime is juiced.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.