Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap
Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth27 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
sports boxing people
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.
writing good-writing
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
thinking dollars columns
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
character
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
sports years squash
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
sports horse hero
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.
adjectives cliche prose
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
american-journalist cooks endorse grill hamburgers money question ring unless
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?
ali american-journalist came ray
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
american-journalist believe
I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
american-journalist babe basis michael
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.
american-journalist
There is never going to be another Ali.
american-journalist books hate love magazines newspapers public radio repetition television
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.
love
I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.