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
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Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
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I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
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I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
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I always thought of him as a stoic, solid person, that I think was typical of that era of the 1950s, ... People came out of the war years with great hope and great faith in the future. Unitas sort of represented that.
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I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete,
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I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it,
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There is never going to be another Ali.
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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.
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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.