Dick Schaap Quotes
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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.
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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
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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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Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
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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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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 was also in love with the English language.
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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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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
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My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
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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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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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I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
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I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
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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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My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
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I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
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Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
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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 championship about every three or four months.
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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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