It was the opportunity, ... to work with Tom Wolfe and Breslin and Red Smith. If you're a journalist, that's who you want to be with. (Legendary theater critic) Walter Kerr used to use my typewriter, I was so proud.
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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 hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking.
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I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.
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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
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