Bob Costas famous quotes

06-13-2025

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.
-- Bob Costas

#Nba Championships #Utah #Missing
If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?
-- Bob Costas

#Nba Championships #Lasts #Jordan
17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.
-- Bob Costas

#Running #Nba Championships #Utah
It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Confused #Thinking
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Mickey
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Strong #Hero
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Games #Doe
His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Real #Doctors
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.... What I believe is, if (Belcher) didnâ€™t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
-- Bob Costas

#Teenage #Believe #Gun
We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.
-- Bob Costas

#Sports #Stories #World
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the ***** test, you failed the IQ test.
-- Bob Costas

#Baseball #Player #Tests
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
-- Bob Costas

#Want #Jerry
Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.
-- Bob Costas

#Sports #Gold #Looks
If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.
-- Bob Costas

#Live For Today #Alive #Nicole
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
-- Bob Costas

#Sat
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
-- Bob Costas

#Gun #Live For Today #Alive
Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.
-- Bob Costas

#Champion #Fields
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
-- Bob Costas

#Eye #Names #Long
I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.
-- Bob Costas

#Air #People #Different
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.
-- Bob Costas

#Humorous #Quirky #Texture
The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.
-- Bob Costas

#Sports #Athlete #Community

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