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I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
- Dick Schaap
#Certainly
#Character
#Rocky
#Worked
I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
- Dick Schaap
#Believe
#Decade
#Did
#Just
#Things
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
- Dick Schaap
#Friends
#Good
#Know
#Say
#Sugar
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.
- Dick Schaap
#Choose
#Did
#Michael Jordan
#Then
#Vote
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
- Dick Schaap
#Business
#Early
#Learning
#Life
#Very
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
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#Balance
#Good Things
#Good
#King
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
#Hype
#Journalism
#Much
#Story
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
- Dick Schaap
#Adjectives
#Cliches
#Prose
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
- Dick Schaap
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#Jim
#Three
#Top
#Were
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
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#Days
#Mistakes
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#Writing
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
- Dick Schaap
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#I Am
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#Wonderful
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
#Clever
#Game
#Language
#New
#Up
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
#Lose
#Three
#Win Or Lose
#Win
#World
I was also in love with the English language.
- Dick Schaap
#Also
#English Language
#Language
#Love
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
#Ball
#Jump
#Loved
#Shot
#Sports
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