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

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.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

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

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

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.

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.