While Google isn’t throwing it up, since I started a Dope thread on the death of his brother William - the great Scottish novelist who founded “Celtic Noir” with his Laidlaw books - I suppose it falls to me to do the same forHugh McIllvanney.
Yes, this might count as a sports thread, since he earnt his crust as a journalist thereof, but he was the sort of prose writer one read regardless of his subject matter at hand.
(The quote’s from his opening to his classic interview with Ali in the hours following the “Rumble in the Jungle”.)