43 Quotes by Dick Schaap

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 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.

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

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

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

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

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

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

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