I Wanted To Be A Sportswriter Because

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.

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.

My Writing Improved The More I Wrote - And The More I Read Good Writing, From Shakespeare On Down.

In Fifty Years Of Covering The Sport, Of Course Muhammad Ali Is By Far The Dominant Figure.

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.