Howard Cosell Quotes
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Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
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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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After all, is football a game or a religion?
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Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
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Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
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Sports is human life in microcosm.
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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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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)
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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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I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
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Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
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Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
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I'm one helluva communicator.
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Sports is the toy department of human life.
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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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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.
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What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
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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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