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
air people different
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.
motivation thinking people
I can't do anything about how people who are all but completely unaware of my actual motivations and my actual thought process and my actual worldview, how they characterize me. There's not much I can do about it, except never say another word other than 'there's a ground ball to shortstop.' And I don't think that's going to happen.
baseball mickey
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
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.
sat loses
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
baseball player tests
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.
sports levels news
There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.
baseball strong hero
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
baseball games doe
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
running nba-championships utah
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.
nba-championships lasts jordan
If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?
baseball confused thinking
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.
sports stories world
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.
games league chess
The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.