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
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
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.
art hype shrinking
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.
sports golf ulcers
Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
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.
sports boxing people
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.
writing good-writing
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
thinking dollars columns
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
character
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
sports years squash
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
sports horse hero
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.