{"id":12938,"date":"2021-02-22T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=12938"},"modified":"2021-02-22T23:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:10:35","slug":"the-incomparable-howard-cosell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=12938","title":{"rendered":"The Incomparable Howard Cosell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a dozen favourite quotes from the incomparable, unflappable, peerless Howard Cosell.<\/h2>\n

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Bons Mots<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

What\u2019s right isn\u2019t always popular. What\u2019s popular isn\u2019t always right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stand for something. Don\u2019t quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple. One man purposefully endeavours to inflict bodily harm on another man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chris George<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Here are a dozen favourite quotes from the incomparable, unflappable, peerless Howard Cosell. Bons Mots What\u2019s right isn\u2019t always popular. What\u2019s popular isn\u2019t always right. Stand for something. Don\u2019t 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12948,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions\/12948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}