Top 33 Cosell Quotes
#1. One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.
Larry Holmes
#2. Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
Muhammad Ali
#3. 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
#4. I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
Lisa Guerrero
#5. 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
#6. There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
Buddy Hackett
#7. Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.
Muhammad Ali
#8. I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
John C. McGinley
#9. 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
#10. My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.
Rita Rudner
#11. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
Howard Cosell
#12. The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
Richard Reti
#13. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Howard Cosell
#14. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.
Douglas Adams
#15. What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
Howard Cosell
#16. A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
Howard Cosell
#18. Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?
Howard Cosell
#19. 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
#20. Horror it has it's own strange stuff... brutal stuff and it's difficult understanding!?
Deyth Banger
#21. When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
Howard Cosell
#23. Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.
Howard Cosell
#24. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
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