Howard Cosell quotes
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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.”
-- Howard CosellSource : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
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“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
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“Sports is human life in microcosm.”
-- Howard CosellSource : HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”
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“Sports is the toy department of human life.”
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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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“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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“Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.”
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“Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.”
-- Howard CosellSource : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
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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.”
-- Howard CosellSource : "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.
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“What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.”
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“Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.”
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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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“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”
-- Howard CosellSource : "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.
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“Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.”
-- Howard CosellSource : "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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“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 CosellSource : Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”
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“I'm one helluva communicator.”
-- Howard CosellSource : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
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