Top 36 Howard Cosell Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Howard Cosell

#1. One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

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

#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. Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor Adorno

#12. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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

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#14. 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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#15. Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

Jodi Picoult

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

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#18. 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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#19. Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

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

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

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

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#23. Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

Kyle Shewfelt

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

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

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#26. You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.

Shannyn Sossamon

#27. I'm one helluva communicator.

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#28. 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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#29. And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#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.

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