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Frank Deford

Frank Deford föddes den 16 december 1938
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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

He was the first prominent college player ... the first star to be associated with college, and in that sense he made baseball acceptable,

Everybody loves sports. It's awfully hard to be critical of these athletes -- they're young, they're strong, they're beautiful. You want to celebrate these guys.

[One] brought himself up by his bootstraps ... the other was born to comfort, a college man at a time when nobody went to college. Each saw in the other the thing he wanted to be.

You imagine people are looking forward to it as a treat, ... But the trick, I suppose, is to keep their interest up before you get to the ending.... Above all, you want the main character, Roger Bannister in this case, to be someone you like and you root for.

Gamesmanship has come to replace sportsmanship all too often,

And that, in turn, has been superseded by, 'In your face.'

It really surprises people, and I understand why, but that was probably the easiest book I ever wrote, because it was simple narrative,

Those of you doing that with the Samaritan Center, ... I salute you.

Those were the real human achievements,

It was a great tragedy ... an athlete dying young always sets us back. We see them as so strong and handsome. We don't think they'll crumble.

At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire, ... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain.

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