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. - Dick Schaap
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
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 …
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character. - Dick Schaap
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. - Dick Schaap
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. - Dick Schaap
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
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
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.
Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers. - Dick Schaap
Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
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
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.
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. - Dick Schaap
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
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