Top 24 Quotes by Dick Schaap

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

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

I was also in love with the English language.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

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

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

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.

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.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

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