Dick Schaap Quotes
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I just can’t believe all the things I did that decade (Dick Schaap Quotes)
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan (Dick Schaap Quotes)
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days (Dick Schaap Quotes)
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 heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali (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. He would fake you in and then he’d drop you (Dick Schaap Quotes)
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony (Dick Schaap Quotes)
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life (Dick Schaap Quotes)
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 carrier (Dick Schaap Quotes)
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 it’s for the lack of a suitable hero (Dick Schaap Quotes)
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid (Dick Schaap Quotes)
Today, it’s money. There’s no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you’re good? (Dick Schaap Quotes)