I Wanted To Be A Sportswriter Because

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.

I Worked With Rocky Graziano And Rocky Was Certainly A Character.

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.

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

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.