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
everybody involved labor love
I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it,
decline journalism landmark shrinking simpson
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.
red theater tom work
It was the opportunity, ... to work with Tom Wolfe and Breslin and Red Smith. If you're a journalist, that's who you want to be with. (Legendary theater critic) Walter Kerr used to use my typewriter, I was so proud.
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.
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,
american-journalist king people slippery
He's in it for Don King and that's understandable because that's why people go into business. He's just kind of slippery about it.
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.
thinking dollars columns
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
winning boxing three
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.
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.
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.
wonderful muse driven
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
good-friend sugar rays
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
language english-language
I was also in love with the English language.