Talk:Howard Cosell

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

• Boxing is the only sport in the world where the clear intention is for one person to inflict bodily harm upon the other person, mainly to the head where brain damage must ensue... I don't think improvements or controls are the answer. I think the answer is abolition.

• 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.

• Like President Reagan, he is a Teflon man. No matter how many mistakes he makes during a telecast, no matter how glaring his weaknesses as a performer, nothing sticks to him. The television critics, wooed by his smooth off-camera personality, generally rave about him, rarely taking him to task on purely objective standards.
  • Regarding Frank Gifford.

• I see nothing to sanctify any sports event.

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

• I would say that Don Meredith's erratic march to the Emmy, the most treasured of all broadcast awards, in his first year of TV work has to be regarded as one of the great feats of modern times.

• Joe Schmidt, he couldn't motivate a frog.

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

• My father's name, when he came to America, was Kassell. At Ellis Island, the registrars changed it to Cohen. I honored my father's name by changing it back to its original pronunciation.

• Sports is human life in microcosm.

• Sports is the toy department of human life.

• Nothing is more meaningless or irrelevant than sports writing.

• 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 man has a cash register where a heart should be.
  • Regarding Walter O'Malley, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.

• 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.

• 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.

• Without me, the nature of the telecasts was entirely altered. I had commanded attention. I had a palpable impact on the show, giving it a sense of moment. If that sounds like ego, what can I say? I'm telling it like it is.
  • Regarding the effects of his leaving Monday Night Football.

From Wikipedia

Here are some unsourced ones that I removed from the Wikipedia article because they didn't belong:

"Who the hell made Monday Night Football unlike any other sports program on the air? If you want the plain truth, I did."

"What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular."

Sheavsey33 09:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)