Dick Schaap Quotes

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• Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him.…
• Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
• I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
• I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue…
• I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
• I was also in love with the English language.
• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I…
• I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball…
• Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
• I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a…
• All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases…
• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
• I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
• If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
• My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
• Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the…
• Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the…
• Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
• Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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