Dick Schaap Quotes

• Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

  Dick Schaap

  Adjectives, Cliche, Prose

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

  Dick Schaap

  Writing, Good Writing

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• 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

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• 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.

  Dick Schaap

  Kings, Jobs, Thinking

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• Se me ocurrían nuevas pistas para las historias de los juegos siendo observador e inteligente, utilizando los muchos dones de la lengua inglesa para intrigar y enganchar al lector.

  Dick Schaap

  Clever, Games, Hook

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• Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Golf, Ulcers

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• 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.

  Dick Schaap

  Winning, Boxing, Sugar

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• 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

  Sports, People, Boxing

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• 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.

  Dick Schaap

  Fake People, Book, Writing

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

  Dick Schaap

  Thinking, Dollars, Columns

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

  Dick Schaap

  Carácter

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

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Years, Squash

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• Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

  Dick Schaap

  Wonderful, Muse, Driven

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• 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

  Art, Aggravation, Hype

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• I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

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• Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

  Dick Schaap

  Cambiado

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• 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

  Sports, Curves, Balls

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• Creo que mis errores eran bastante comunes: recurrir a clichés y adjetivos en lugar de una escritura clara y vívida. Pero al menos sabía cómo escribir, lo que parece ser una rareza hoy en día.

  Dick Schaap

  Error, Escribir, Pensar

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• I was also in love with the English language.

  Dick Schaap

  Language, English Language

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• I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

  Dick Schaap

  Good Friend, Rays, Sugar

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

  Dick Schaap

  Three, Brown, Chamberlain

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