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

- Howard Cosell

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

- Howard Cosell

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 swift…

- Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life.

- Howard Cosell

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

- Howard Cosell

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

- Howard Cosell

After all, is football a game or a religion?

- Howard Cosell

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

- 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 li…

- Howard Cosell