Bob Costas
Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costasis an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s, and has been the prime-time host of nine Olympic games...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth22 March 1952
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
teenage believe gun
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) didn’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.
nba-championships utah missing
All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.
alive today nicole
If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.
running thinking guy
We're still buzzin' about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I'll tell you if there was one guy we weren't thinking was 'Born To Run' it was James Harrison.
humorous should-have quirky
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.
thinking nuts games
If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.
champion fields
Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.
sports athlete community
The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.
baseball real doctors
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.
people want intention
People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.
preparation use spontaneous
You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.
basketball sports football
If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.
baseball strong hero
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
sports gold looks
Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.