I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

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

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.