Howard Cosell Quotes

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• Sports is human life in microcosm.
• Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
• Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.
• 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…
• Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
• After all, is football a game or a religion?
• Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
• Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
• 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…
• What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
• 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…
• Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of…
• I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
• Sports is the toy department of human life.
• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
• Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

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