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He said, 'Of course, you understand we have to offer it to CBS and NBC first because of existing contracts. I was about to slit my throat.
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He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggling days of ABC News.
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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.
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You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
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I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.
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I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.
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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
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Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
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I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
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