Let $\delta_m \colon S^n \to S^n$ be a map of degree $m$. Then $\delta_m$ induces a map $\pi_{n+1}S^n \to \pi_{n+1}S^n$ by $\delta_m[f]:=[\delta_m\circ f]$. We know that for $n>2$ the group $\pi_{n+1}S^n$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb Z_2$.
The question is, what kind of map $\delta_m \colon \pi_{n+1}S^n \to \pi_{n+1}S^n$ do we get?
For $n=2$, a nonzero element of $\pi_3(S^2)\cong\mathbb{Z}$ is the Whitehead square $[\iota,\iota]$ where $\iota\in\pi_2(S^2)$ is the canonical generator (in fact, $[\iota,\iota]$ is twice a generator of $\pi_3(S^2)$). Since the Whitehead product is bilinear, a degree $m$ map on $S^2$ maps $[\iota,\iota]$ to $[m\iota,m\iota]=m^2[\iota,\iota]$. It follows that a degree $m$ map acts on $\pi_3(S^2)$ by multiplication by $m^2$.
For $n>2$, the $(n-2)$-fold suspension $\pi_3(S^2)\to \pi_{n+1}(S^n)$ is surjective. Since a degree $m$ map on $S^n$ is just an $(n-2)$-fold suspension of a degree $m$ map on $S^2$, it acts on $\pi_{n+1}(S^n)$ by multiplication by $m^2$. In other words, it acts by the identity if $m$ is odd and by $0$ if $m$ is even.
More generally, in the stable range of homotopy groups of spheres, a degree $m$ map acts by multiplication by $m$. Indeed, if $\pi_k(S^n)$ is in the stable range, then $S^n\to \Omega S^{n+1}$ induces an isomorphism on $\pi_k$. Now observe that by Eckmann-Hilton, the group operation on $\pi_k(\Omega S^{n+1})$ coincides with the group operation induced by concatenation of loops in $\Omega S^{n+1}$. But now observe that the composition $S^n\stackrel{\delta_m}\to S^n\to \Omega S^{n+1}$ is homotopic to the composition $S^n\to \Omega S^{n+1}\stackrel{\mu_m}\to\Omega S^{n+1}$ where $\mu_m$ takes a loop to its $m$-fold concatenation with itself (this is again by Eckmann-Hilton: there are two operations on $[S^n,\Omega S^{n+1}]$, one from the cogroup structure on $S^n$ and one from the group structure on $\Omega S^{n+1}$, and they must be equal). This means that the map induced by $\delta_m$ on $\pi_k(S^n)\cong \pi_k(\Omega S^{k+1})$ is multiplication by $m$.
(Even more generally, composition is bilinear in the stable homotopy category. Here we are using that the composition of a map $S^k\to S^n$ with the sum of $m$ copies of the identity map $S^n\to S^n$ is homotopic to the sum of $m$ copies of our map $S^k\to S^n$, which is a special case of that bilinearity.)