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Top 15 Dick Schaap Quotes (2025 Update)

Dick Schaap Quote: “I was also in love with the English language.”

1. “I was also in love with the English language.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “My writing improved the more I wrote – and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”

2. “My writing improved the more I wrote – and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.”

3. “Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.”

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

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Dick Schaap Quote: “My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.”

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

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.”

6. “I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.”

7. “I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Dick Schaap Quote: “Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don’t count ulcers.”

13. “Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don’t count ulcers.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.”

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

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Dick Schaap Quote: “Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.”

16. “Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.”

17. “Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.”

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.”

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

— Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap Quote: “I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.”

19. “I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.”

— Dick Schaap

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