HOWARD COSELL

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

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

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

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

Sports is human life in microcosm.

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

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of 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. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

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.

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

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

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.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Sports is human life in microcosm.

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.

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

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

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

I'm one helluva communicator.

An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of 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. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.