Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosellwas an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth25 March 1918
CityWinston-Salem, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Howard Cosell quotes about
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.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
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.
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
I'm one helluva communicator.
Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?