#in

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. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#because #carrier #could #curve #hit

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

— Dick Schaap

#character #i #rocky #worked

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

— Dick Schaap

#dollars #five #got #i #more

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

— Dick Schaap

#course #covering #dominant #far #fifty

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary! ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#correct #entirely #four #idea #necessary

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. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#both #boxing #cases #characters #decline

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#brown #chamberlain #jackson #jim #jim brown

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

— Dick Schaap

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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#ali #anyone #being #came #close

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? ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cooks #else #endorse #good #grill