“I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.”
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Famous Dick Schaap Quotes
“If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.”
“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”
“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.”
“In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.”