Howard Cosell Quotes & Sayings

An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead ... on ... arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take. — Howard Cosell

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

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

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

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

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

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. — Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell

Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard? — Howard Cosell

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale. — Howard Cosell

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

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! — Howard Cosell

I'm one helluva communicator. — Howard Cosell

Sports is human life in microcosm. — Howard Cosell

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

After all, is football a game or a religion? — Howard Cosell

O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legsand the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with hisvariation of speed ... (on some of the ways O. J. Simpson can kill) — Howard Cosell

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell