Howard Cosell Quotes

#1. Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

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#2. Sports is human life in microcosm.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I'm one helluva communicator.

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#6. Sports is the toy department of human life.

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#7. After all, is football a game or a religion?

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#8. Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

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#12. 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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#13. Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

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

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#15. What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

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

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#17. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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