Howard Cosell Quotes

• Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

  Howard Cosell

  Arrogant, Vain, Obnoxious

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• Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

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  Popular Song

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• The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

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  Motivational, Greatest Victory, Knowing

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• O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legsand the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with hisvariation of speed... (on some of the ways O. J. Simpson can kill)

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  Moving, Cutting, Swiftness

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• Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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  Boxing

  "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

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  Courage, Morning, Pain

  Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”

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• Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

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  Sports, Simple, Men

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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• Sports is the toy department of human life.

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  Sports, Toys, Human Life

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• After all, is football a game or a religion?

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  Football, Games

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• The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

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  Sports, Country, Football

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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

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  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• Sports is human life in microcosm.

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  Sports, Homecoming, Human Life

  HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”

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• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

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  Gentleman, Burning, Bronx

  "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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• I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

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  Enmity, Muhammad, Areas

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• I'm one helluva communicator.

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  Communicators

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

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  Goodbye, Thinking, Boxing

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• Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

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  Drama, Boxing, Scales

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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