All Dick Schaap Quotes
- 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.… Articles
- Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony. Alimony
- I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life. Began
- 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… Came
- I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends. Friends
- I was also in love with the English language. English
- I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I… Adjectives
- 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… Ball
- Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. Changed
- 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… Ali
- 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. All
- 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… Been
- In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. Ali
- I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character. Character
- If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. Column
- My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. 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… Boxing
- 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… Boxing
- Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers. Bloodless
- Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Adjectives