Here are a dozen favourite quotes from the incomparable, unflappable, peerless Howard Cosell.
Bons Mots
What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.
Stand for something. Don’t quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple. One man purposefully endeavours to inflict bodily harm on another man.
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Chris George is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of CG&A COMMUNICATIONS. Contact: ChrisG.George@gmail.com