Dick Schaap American Quotations

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.

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

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

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?

I hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking.

There is never going to be another Ali.

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.

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.

He's in it for Don King and that's understandable because that's why people go into business. He's just kind of slippery about it.