Howard Cosell famous quotes

07-12-2025

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

#Sports #Simple #Men
After all, is football a game or a religion?
-- Howard Cosell

#Football #Games
Sports is human life in microcosm.
-- Howard Cosell

#Sports #Human Life #Microcosm
Sports is the toy department of human life.
-- Howard Cosell

#Sports #Toys #Human Life
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.
-- Howard Cosell

#Motivational #Knowing #Giving
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.
-- Howard Cosell

#Sports #Country #Football
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
-- Howard Cosell

#Honesty #Integrity #Quests
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
-- Howard Cosell

#Drama #Boxing #Scales
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.
-- Howard Cosell

#New York #Games #Cities
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
-- Howard Cosell

#Popular Song
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
-- Howard Cosell

#Arrogant #Vain #Obnoxious
The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
-- Howard Cosell

#Goodbye #Thinking #Boxing
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
-- Howard Cosell

#Boxing
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
-- Howard Cosell

#Gentleman #Burning #Bronx
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
-- Howard Cosell

#Enmity #Muhammad
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.
-- Howard Cosell

#Courage #Morning #Pain
I'm one helluva communicator.
-- Howard Cosell

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