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
three brown chamberlain
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
athletic athletics babe basis brown changed choose considered face field guys jim michael mind played purely vote voted win
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.
anybody athletics entitled qualify vote
I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete,
everybody involved labor love
I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it,
sports curves balls
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.
mistake writing thinking
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.
language english-language
I was also in love with the English language.
good-friend sugar rays
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
clever games hook
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.
wonderful muse driven
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
fake-people book writing
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.
changed
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
jobs kings thinking
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.
sports golf ulcers
Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.