Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosellwas an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth25 March 1918
CityWinston-Salem, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. 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.
Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?
I'm one helluva communicator.
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
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.
The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
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.
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)
Sports is the toy department of human life.
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.
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.