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
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,
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.
everybody involved labor love
I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it,
three brown chamberlain
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
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.