Bob Ryan, artistry and more even as sportwriting

Brian Curtis profiles former Boston sportswriter  Bob Ryan who never suffered from self-doubt, hence this item:

A fellow Boston Globe writer named John Powers once noticed that Ryan didn’t include many quotes in his game stories. Quotes were the chief information-dispensing device of other NBA writers.

Bob, Powers asked, why aren’t Globe readers hearing from the athletes?

Ryan replied, “I’ll tell ’em what they ought to know!”