Howard Cosell Quotes

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

  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

• 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 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

• Sports is the toy department of human life.

  Howard Cosell

• Sports is human life in microcosm.

  Howard Cosell

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

  Howard Cosell

• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

  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

Howard Cosell (10)

Birth:	25th March, 1918
Death:	23rd April, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Broadcaster, Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier

About

Howard William Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He was an American sports journalist. In 1993, TV Guide named Howard Cosell The All-Time Best Sportscaster in its issue celebrating 40 years of television. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from New York University. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1941, but when the U.S. entered World War II, he entered the United States Army Transportation Corps, where he was promoted to the rank of major. He left the service in 1945. After the war, he began practicing law in Manhattan, primarily union law.

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