Schaap Quotes & Sayings

Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal. — Eric Maisel

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. — George W. Bush

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

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony. — Dick Schaap

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

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

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

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable. — Tom Coburn

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

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

Snyder was a progressive. Unlike Avery Brundage of the AOC and Dean Cromwell of USC, he was far from sympathetic to the Nazi cause. But his first loyalty was to Jesse Owens. He thought that if Owens got the chance to compete, he would win every event he entered. He knew, too, that then Owens would never have to look back. Of course, it is also crucial to remember that Snyder's opinion was not informed by the gift of foresight. Like the AOC, he did not know, as we now know, that there would be a holocaust, that Hitler and his regime would eventually kill millions, that the Germans would attack Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. If he had known, he would have felt differently about the boycott. But in 1935 it was still possible to assume that European Jewry was not on the precipice of extinction, just as it was possible to believe that Hitler was not quite a madman. Everyone knew that Hitler disliked the Jews, but few imagined that he would attempt to exterminate them. In — Jeremy Schaap

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation. — Eugene Cernan

People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don't like, that you wouldn't do. But that doesn't mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they're still breathing. — J.M. Darhower

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

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. — Rajneesh

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers. — Dick Schaap

Childhood feels so permanent, — Jonathan Tropper

I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit. — Sarah Rees Brennan

We will stay. Our son will need friends. You will need the healer. And I," he says, grazing his thumb over my mouth. "Will always need you. A male cannot exist apart from its heart. — Ruby Dixon

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

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. — Dick Schaap

Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman and James Schaap (Eerdmans, 1994). — Kathryn J. Atwood

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

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson. — Dick Schaap

I was also in love with the English language. — Dick Schaap

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

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

High school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet — Rainbow Rowell

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life. — Dick Schaap

There is only one way to a man's heart. Through gentleness. Not by getting angry or jealous. — Laura Bickle

I'd love to design a school. — Nolan Bushnell

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

He'd seen unequivocally that the chaos he'd dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would ever be. No compromise he could make would be enough. His death-self was unfolding in him, and the dark blooming took no effort. It was a relief, a relaxation, a long, slow exhale after decades of holding it in.
He was in ruins, but it was okay, because he was dying. — James S.A. Corey

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

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character. — Dick Schaap

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie). — Sidney Lumet

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. — Dick Schaap

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends. — Dick Schaap

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

I've always thought of God as the only first-rate artist. There's so much that's miraculous about us - the way three tiny bones in our ears can process sound waves, for instance; and around us his perfect hand has painted the greatest masterpiece, the ecology of nature with its balance and precision, the way it can juxtapose competing forces into something harmonious. Stop and look sometime at the beauty of a weeping willow - I can go on and on — James Calvin Schaap

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