Dick Schaap Quotes

The best thing,.. Was that my subject was accessible, which wasn't always true with the other people I worked with. Secondly, I didn't have to split the money with him. He did it gratis, which was nice of him. And if he was wrong, I had nobody to blame but myself. I couldn't pull a Charles Barkley and claim I was misquoted in my autobiography.

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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.

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I always thought of him as a stoic, solid person, that I think was typical of that era of the 1950s,.. People came out of the war years with great hope and great faith in the future. Unitas sort of represented that.

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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. They changed the face of sports. But I voted purely on what I considered to be athletic ability, and if I had anything in the back of my mind it was, 'If you put these guys on a field and they played each other in 20 sports, who would win the most?' I think Jim Brown would win the most, and I think Chamberlain would be awfully close.

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I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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