List of Dick Schaap Quotes

My Top Three Were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain And Bo Jackson.

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.

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.

I Was Also In Love With The English Language.

I Got To Know Sugar Ray But I Certainly Would Not Say We Were Good Friends.

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.

I Began Learning The Sportswriting Business Very Early In Life.

Also, I Am Driven By A Wonderful Muse Called Alimony.

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.

Sportswriters Have Changed More Than Sportswriting.

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.

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.