Dick Schaap Quotes
31 Dick Schaap quotes:
"Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony."
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"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
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"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 sport."
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"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. They changed the face of sports. But I voted purely on what I considered to be athletic ability, and if I had anything in the back of my mind it was, 'If you put these guys on a field and they played each other in 20 sports, who would win the most?' I think Jim Brown would win the most, and I think Chamberlain would be awfully close."
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"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."
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"I hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking."
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"I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character."
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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. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you."
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"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?"
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"I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete,"
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"Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down."
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"There is never going to be another Ali."
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"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."
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"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 and hook a reader."
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"If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid."
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"My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson."
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