My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on … - Dick Schaap

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I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

Dick Schaap

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

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

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

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

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