Famous Sports Quotes

Famous quotes by Tony Romo’s teammates and by Tony Romo

“Obviously, he is a professional and he knows his body. He’s a competitor. He wants to play. I don’t know if he will be back this week or not. But it’s encouraging to all of us that he will be back sooner (rather) than later. Tony is smart. He is going to make the right decision. He is going to do what is best for him.”
Jason Witten
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You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game. ~Tony Romo
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I treat T.O. almost like he’s Jerry Jones, and, you know, if you’re like the owner of the team, he’s like the owner of the wide-receivers, and, you know, he’s kind of like the Godfather of the group … at the end of the day, you want him to know that you’re on his side. ~Tony Romo
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I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general. ~Tony Romo
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If something in sports is the worst thing that ever happens to you, you’ve lived a pretty good life. ~Tony Romo
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That’s the whole thing I didn’t understand when I first got in the NFL. Most quarterbacks if a guy comes free, gets to the edge and it breaks down, they let the guy run by and still throw in rhythm. I’ve never had the ability …… A guy comes free, the ball is coming out. I’m going somewhere because that’s what you do in a game. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong, but my brain is telling me this guy, I feel him, he’s going to hit me, it just feels the same. Now maybe that was a benefit for me to allow me to play better quicker when I was younger. I just felt that I was able to play at a tempo like you’re playing games. When it happens in a game, it’s not a brand new thing, not a random act. It felt the same. ~Tony Romo
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Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly … you won’t be doing this interview–you’ll be interviewing the next guy. ~Tony Romo
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There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.  ~Tony Romo
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We’re just football guys 24/7. The more people you have like that on your team, usually the better off your team is. ~Tony Romo
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On December 5, 2008 OJ Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping.  He will spend at least 9 years in jail.

“We are thrilled, and it’s a bittersweet moment.  It was satisfying seeing him in shackles like he belongs.”  Fred Goldman

I didn’t mean to steal anything from anyone. … I’m sorry, sorry. -  OJ Simpson

I was stupid.  I’m sorry. I didn’t meant to steal anything from anybody.  I thought I was confronting friends and retrieving my property and I’m sorry. OJ Simpson

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
OJ Simpson

My NFL pension can barely pay my son’s tuition. You know, it’s very little money.
OJ Simpson

Nicole will come up in conversations where it’s in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.
OJ Simpson

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
OJ Simpson

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.
OJ Simpson

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?   OJ Simpson

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Brett Favre Pass

Famous Sports Quotes brings you quote by Brett Favre and about Bret Favre

Corey Fuller - Browns Defensive Back
“Brett Favre is the best, he can laser that ball in there at the drop of a dime. Running away from pressure, throwing the ball off his back foot - he’s the best.”

Tim Couch - Browns Quarterback
“He was always my favorite. I’ve always looked up to him and admired him. He’s a tough, fiery, competitor.”

“He’s a gunslinger. He may throw three picks in the first half, but he’s still going to come out giving it all he’s got in the next half and he may throw three touchdowns and pull the game out in the end. No matter how his body feels, he’s going to come in there and compete.”

Mike Flanagan - Packers Offensive Lineman
“He’ll throw water on you after you’ve put on your coat and tie, he’ll take your clothes and throw ‘em in the shower or stuff ‘em in an ice bag. He’s big on stink bombs every once in a while, too. You would never know he is a $100 million guy. He just likes to have fun.”

It gets to be part of your everyday routine. I expect to be there on Sunday. I expect to be there at practice. I think back to when I first started school in the first grade and how long it seemed to take to go from first through 12th. You figure in ninth grade you’re never going to get out of high school, and you couldn’t wait. Here I am in my 14th year and going on 13 for not missing basically a day of school… Part of it is being able to escape injury, overcome some injuries but also be able to play at a high enough level for so long to still be here doing it. The streak itself doesn’t stand out to me that it’s something I have to continue. As long as I’m a Green Bay Packer, I expect to play. I expect to help this team win and be a tremendous leader. And I expect that to continue until the day I don’t play here anymore. - Brett Favre Quote

You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you.  - Brett Favre Quote

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I’m running out of chances.  - Brett Favre Quote

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it’s this year or in years to come, I don’t know.  - Brett Favre Quote

It’s the hand we’re dealt. We’ve put ourselves in this position, and we’ve got to find a way to get out of it.  - Brett Favre Quote

Yeah, maybe if we make that extra point we go into overtime … But if I make that last throw, that’s what Brett Favre is all about. … When called upon, I expect to make those plays. So, yeah, I feel like I let this team down.  - Brett Favre Quote

I didn’t know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that’s obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.  - Brett Favre Quote

I’d write over and over, I will not throw into coverage.  - Brett Favre Quote

There wasn’t a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.  - Brett Favre Quote

I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.  - Brett Favre Quote
We’re always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I’m aggressive. I’ll take shots, I’ll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes.  - Brett Favre Quote
I’m happy about my decision and I haven’t once said, ‘I wonder if I made the wrong decision.’ I know it’s the right one.  - Brett Favre Quote
Cris Carter - Dolphins Wide Receiver
“He’s the best, bar none.  Whenever God was making them, He put a little extra in him.”

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“The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.” Lewis Grizzard

“I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: “Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.”
Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

“football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

“After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post game message to his team: “All those who need showers, take them.”
John McKay / USC

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s OK You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.
Vince Lombardi

No star playing, just football.
Knute Rockne

People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.
Don Delillo

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance — physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ”national pastime” pedestal in less than fifteen years.
Hunter S. Thompson

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
O. J. Simpson

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Quotes about the sport of basketball by players, coaches, fans and media.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. ~Bill Russell

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~Red Auerbach

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass. ~George Raveling

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Bill Vaughn

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play “Drop the Handkerchief.” ~James Naismith

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators. ~Dick Vertleib

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. ~Abe Lemons

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy. ~Bobby Knight

The rule was “No autopsy, no foul.” ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood

When it’s played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. ~John Edgar Wideman

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~Dave Barry

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. ~Tom Tolbert

To win, you’ve got to put the ball in the macramé. ~Terry McGuire

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993

I liked the choreography, but I didn’t care for the costumes. ~Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~Phil Jackson

Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. ~Ogden Nash Read the rest of this entry »

 

QUOTES ABOUT YANKEE STADIUM

“To be a Yankee is a thought in everyone’s head . . .Just walking into Yankee Stadium, chills run through you.
Jim “Catfish” Hunter

“To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.”
Mickey Mantle

“When I first came to Yankee Stadium, I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.”
Mickey Mantle

“I thought it (Yankee Stadium) would be in black and white.”
Greg Maddux,

“That Babe was some architect.”
“Nothing in our league compares to Yankee Stadium.”
Chipper Jones

“When I came up to the Yanks from Newark at the end of the 1946 season, I took one look at the staium and thought, ‘Geez, whatta big place!’”
Yogi Berra

“Thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee. . . .I suppoose we get more sentimental as we get older. That day they had for me, more than any at Yankee Stadium, gave me an awful lot of satisfaction-a feeling that I’d done a pretty good job with the only talent I had.”
Joe DiMaggio

“People from out of town say ther are three things they want to see - the Statue of Liberty, Radio City, and Yankee Stadium. I guess you could say the stadium is hallowed ground.”
Bill Waite

“Yankee Stadium is something else, a law unto itself. It has earned the right to look any way it pleases and I would change a seat of it. . . .It is particularly dreamworthy because not so long ago the World Series used to turn up there as regularly as Wimbledon. I once sneaked out to center field myself as a youth to see how things looked from Mickey Mantle’s point of view and felt the same tingle some people get from Civil War battlefields.”
Wilfred Sheed

“Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.”
Roger Maris

“The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.”
William E. Geist quotes

“Some ball yard!”
Babe Ruth

“There was a great, dark mystery about it when I first came here from Oklahoma. I still get goose pimples just walking inside it. Now I think this is about the prettiest ball park I ever saw.”
Mickey Mantle

“I grew up loving Southern League Baseball. When I was four my daddy took me to the old Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Then, coming to Yankee Stadium in 1937 for the first time-where the greats like the Babe, Lou and DiMag played-was just beyond my dreams. Suddenly here I was, a guy supposed to practice law, broadcasting Yankee home games on radio from this mecca of baseball. This was the place, the number-one place in baseball. The stadium was like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of baseball, and every time I stepped inside of it I had to pinch myself!”
Mel Allen

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Winner of 9 Gold Medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps has become an icon and a hero for many.  Here are some Michael Phelps Quotes

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

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Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait… this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.
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I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.
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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
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I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, ‘I’m an Olympic gold medalist.’
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Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.
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There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl’s requesting a signed photo of me.
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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps

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May 20, 1946 - July 12, 2008  RIP Bobby Murcer

“I feel especially blessed to have been able to hear from and see all these Wonderful People. Through this entire ordeal, their prayers and support have been so gratifying. You have no idea what a strength the fans have been for me.”  

When recovering, Murcer said, “God has blessed me so much since I was diagnosed with this brain tumor and so many blessings have come my way.  Its changed our lives for the better”

On returning to broadcasting, Murcer said, “I can’t tell you I know everything about baseball, but I’ll just make it up like I always do.” 

You decide you’ll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

“Trying to hit him [Phil Niekro] was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks.”

“Any time I walk through these halls and be in this place here, talking about baseball, man, that’s right up my alley,” Murcer said in May.

Quotes by Bobby Murcer Peers:
“It’s a sad day.  Just a wonderful person, a great teammate and a heck of a baseball player. [Wife] Kay and Bobby were good friends. I was informed about this about five minutes ago, and I knew that he was struggling. But, boy, you just don’t think these sort of things happen, but they do. They happen frequently.”  ~Lou Pinella

“All of Major League Baseball is saddened today by the passing of Bobby Murcer, particularly on the eve of this historic All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, a place he called home for so many years. Bobby was a gentleman, a great ambassador for baseball, and a true leader both on and off the field. He was a man of great heart and compassion and made many wonderful contributions to the Baseball Assistance Team and to the game. All of us in baseball will miss him. We pass on our sympathies and condolences to his family and to his many friends.”  ~Allan “Bud” Selig

“Bobby Murcer was a born Yankee, a great guy, very well-liked and a true friend of mine. I extend my deepest sympathies to his wife Kay, their children and grandchildren. I will really miss the guy.”  ~George Steinbrenner

“He was so great in the clubhouse, just a pleasure to have in the clubhouse. The players really loved having him around. Old-Timers Day was always a special day for Bobby. When the Yankees would come to Kansas City when I was growing up there, he was always one of the guys I was trying to get an autograph from. He was a really good player, a really solid left-handed hitter.”  ~David Cone

“Bobby was one of the finest human beings I’ve ever met. He handled his battle with a grace and class that was hard to fathom. For me personally, it’s an incredible loss. He was my idol growing up. I was lucky to work with him as a broadcaster, and it showed me that I had great taste as a kid. He was everything that you’d want in someone that you once looked up to. He lived up to every ideal that a little boy set for him. I’m going to miss him a lot. I miss him a lot already.”   ~Broadcaster Michael Kay

“He was a great Yankee, but more importantly, he was a great friend to all of us. He cared about the game — he cared whether we won or lost every day. He wore his emotions on his sleeve — in the booth and as a player.”  ~Joe Girardi

“From Day 1, through all my struggles, he was always there with a smile. He stayed very positive, very uplifting. He’s a symbol for what the Yankees stand for — he’s a real champion.”  ~Alex Rodriguez

“He loved to talk hitting all the time. He was a great hitter, made a lot of adjustments playing in Yankee Stadium with that short right-field wall, but the biggest thing was the spirit that he had. He was always happy, always had a positive spin on something, whether you were struggling or not. He always was that guy who would come down and root you on.”  ~Jason Giambi

“Ever since I was a young player, any time I did something good, he would always come over and congratulate me. He always stayed positive, even when you struggled. He was always someone you looked forward to seeing.” ~Derek Jeter

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In all sport there is pain but the rewards of that pain are worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears.  Sports pain quotes:

“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”
Unknown


“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Carl Jung


“The pain of disipline is far less than the pain of regret”
- Sarah Bombell, swimmer

“Sweet is Pleasure after Pain”
- Dirigo Rowing

“Your training partner’s name is pain. You start out trying to ignore him. Can’t do it. You attempt to reason with him. No way. You try to strike a bargain. Hah. You plead. You say “Please stop, please go away. I promise never ever to do this again if you just leave me alone.” But he won’t. Pain only climbs off if you do. Then you’re beaten. ”
- Scott Martin

“The Truth is that Running Hurts. No one gets faster without meeting their personal pain barrier straight on. No amount of junk miles, fun runs or affirmations are going to get you over the hill at the five mile mark in a 10k. However, what will pull you through is solid prep with hard hill runs and interval work.”
- Manciata

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.  ~Author Unknown

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Pain is only temporary but victory is forever. - Lance Armstrong

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What can be said about Howard Cosell?  I hope you’re old enough to remember his broadcasts.  Below are some quotes by Cosell and by his peers.
Without me, the nature of the telecasts was entirely altered. I had commanded attention. I had a palpable impact on the show, giving it a sense of moment. If that sounds like ego, what can I say? I’m telling it like it is.  - Howard Cosell Quote

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“He become a giant by the simple act of telling the truth in an industry that was not used to hearing it and considered it revolutionary. Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.”
– Roone Arledge quote, ABC News president
Famous Howard Cosell Quotes

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”
 
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“Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?”

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“Joe Schmidt, he couldn’t motivate a frog,”
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“Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.”

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“I see nothing to sanctify any sports event.”

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“The man has a cash register where a heart should be.”
About Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley.

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“Look at that little monkey run.”
About wide receiver Alvin Garrett.

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“Boxing is the only sport in the world where the clear intention is for one person to inflict bodily harm upon the other person, mainly to the head where brain damage must ensue … I don’t think improvements or controls are the answer. I think the answer is abolition.”

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“Like President Reagan, he is a Teflon man. No matter how many mistakes he makes during a telecast, no matter how glaring his weaknesses as a performer, nothing sticks to him. The television critics, wooed by his smooth off-camera personality, generally rave about him, rarely taking him to task on purely objective standards.”
About colleague Frank Gifford.
Famous quotes by Howard Cosell’s peers:

“Howard Cosell was a good man and he lived a good life. I have been interviewed by many people, but I enjoyed interviews with Howard the best. We always put on a good show. I hope to meet him one day in the hereafter. I can hear Howard now saying, Muhammad, you’re not the man you used to be.’ I pray that he is in God’s hands. I will miss him.”
– Muhammed Ali

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“He rose to prominence during a time of drama and upheaval in sports. His style — part journalist, part carnival barker — made him unique.”
– NBC sportscaster Bob Costas

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“He was loud, boisterous and extreme, but he really got people’s attention and he was really bright.”
– Former tennis champion Billie Jean King

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“I used to kid him, You couldn’t diagram an end run,’ but he memorized the press guides, everything.”
– Sportscaster Curt Gowdy

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