Schaap Quotes

#1. Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman and James Schaap (Eerdmans, 1994).

Kathryn J. Atwood

#2. 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

#3. Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Dick Schaap

#4. Coffee gives me bad breath.

Norah Jones

#5. I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

Dick Schaap

#6. Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Noel Coward

#7. 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

#8. My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

Dick Schaap

#9. 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

#10. I was also in love with the English language.

Dick Schaap

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

Dalai Lama

#14. 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

#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

#16. Those Yalta nights, with extraordinary women who could drink vodka without swooning until six in the morning and sweaty young people from the Association of Proletarian Writers of Crimea who came to ask for literary advice at four in the afternoon.

Roberto Bolano

#17. 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

#18. I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

Dick Schaap

#19. Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us,
Snow-hushed and heartless.

Sara Teasdale

#20. If you don't enjoy the moment, you have lost the moment

Roy A. Piercy

#21. My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Dick Schaap

#22. 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

#23. 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?

Dick Schaap

#24. Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

Dick Schaap

#25. In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

#26. When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Saint Augustine

#27. I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Dick Schaap

#28. Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

Dick Schaap

#29. My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

Jamie Wyeth

#30. 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

#31. Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

Dick Schaap

#32. Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

Tamora Pierce

#33. God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

Peter Scazzero

#34. Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Tim Berners-Lee

#35. I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

Dick Schaap

#36. The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Dick Schaap

#38. Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

Dick Schaap