Howard William Cosell (1918–95) was 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 impact 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 became the dominant note of sports broadcasting.”
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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
Topics: Victory
What’s right isn’t popular, what’s popular isn’t right.
—Howard Cosell
Topics: Character
Sports is the toy department of human life.
—Howard Cosell
Topics: Sports, One liners
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