"This is Howard Cosell telling it like it is."

“I was infected with my desire, my resolve, to make it in broadcasting. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how.”

“Crowd screaming chanting ALI! ALI! Legends die hard and Ali is learning that even he can not be forever young.”

“He's going to go all-the-way.”

“hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? … Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!”

“He is working Duran effectively....and Duran must resolve from pulling in...and he does...WHAT?! DURAN HAS QUIT?! ROBERTO DURAN HAS QUIT!!! There can be no other explanation. Pandemonium in the ring, and Roberto Duran has quit!”

“Look at that little monkey run!”