Howard Cosell Quotes: Voice of Sports that Inspired a Generation

Sports is the toy department of human life.

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.

What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.

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.

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

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.

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

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

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Howard Cosell Quotes: Voice of Sports that Inspired a Generation part 2

I told Muhammad Ali if he keeps on predicting the exact round he’ll stop his foes, they’ll know exactly what round to fall down in to please him.

In television, everyone has an ego. Mine is just bigger, that’s all.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, it’s a very unnatural condition. It takes a certain amount of adjustment.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible.

And after all, if you’ve taken a moment to see what is, to see it fully and wholly, how can anyone call that a failure?

What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

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.

I tell it like it is. I call them as I see them. I tell it like it is. I tell it like I believe it to be.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Look at the score! The score is only an abstraction, a tyranny. You play each shot as a discrete event. Time is always now.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let’s look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside 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.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

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.

What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.

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.

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.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

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

I am the modern Howard Cosell, the modern creator, the modern intelligent man. I am the Howard Cosell of today.

I tell it like it is. I don’t pull any punches.

Look at that little monkey run!

Now ladies and gentlemen, the story you all know, here is the truth.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

I’m just telling it like it is.