Quotes By Dick Schaap
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.Share this quote on facebook:
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
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In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
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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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My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
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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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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.
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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
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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.
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There is never going to be another Ali.
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You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he's gone and that sport is having problems.
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