I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

- Dick Schaap

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 …

- Dick Schaap

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

- Dick Schaap

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

- Dick Schaap

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

- Dick Schaap

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

- Dick Schaap

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.

- Dick Schaap

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.

- Dick Schaap

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

- Dick Schaap