Howard Cosell Boxing Quotes

#1. A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

Chael Sonnen

#2. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

Howard Cosell

#3. The question of God, by contrast, is one that can and must be pursued in terms of the absolute and the contingent, the necessary and the fortuitous, potency and act, possibility and impossibility, being and nonbeing, transcendence and immanence.

David Bentley Hart

#4. The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Colum McCann

#5. Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Kevin Garnett

#6. 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

#7. He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

Graham Greene

#8. I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

Syd Barrett

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

Howard Cosell

#10. I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

John Hunt Morgan

#11. Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Howard Cosell

#12. In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Leona Lewis

#13. A man who had felt less, might.

Jane Austen

#14. If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Walter Lippmann

#15. I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

Rachel Cusk

#16. 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

#17. Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to.

Sarah Mayberry

#18. Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.

F.F. Bruce

#19. I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

Francis Collins

#20. Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Muhammad Ali