Top 33 Best Howard Cosell Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Best Howard Cosell

#1. That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.

Evander Holyfield

#2. 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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#3. I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

John C. McGinley

#4. Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Alain De Botton

#5. Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

Muhammad Ali

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

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#7. There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

Buddy Hackett

#8. 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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#9. Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

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

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#12. I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Lisa Guerrero

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

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

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#15. Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.

Roone Arledge

#16. My heart beats red, white, and blue.
And with patriotism it aches
Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights
But in particular, cupcakes

John Walter Bratton

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

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#18. Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that."
Every Boy's Got One

Meg Cabot

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

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#20. The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Red Smith

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

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

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#23. I'm one helluva communicator.

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#24. My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham

#25. And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Delta Burke

#26. 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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#27. My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

Rita Rudner

#28. 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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