Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bob Costas
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 22
Actor
Journalist
Radio Personality
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
Sportswriter
Queens
New York
Robert Quinlan Costas
Robert Costas
Eye
Irreverent
Doesn
Blink
Seems
Seemed
Long
Seem
Like
Name
Affixed
Went
Newcomer
Names
Newcomers
Word
Venerable

More quotes by Bob Costas

Image
The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.
Bob Costas
Image
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
Image
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.
Bob Costas
Image
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
Image
Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.
Bob Costas
Image
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.
Bob Costas
Image
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.
Bob Costas
Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Bob Costas
Image
Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.
Bob Costas
Image
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.
Bob Costas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
Bob Costas
Image
If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?
Bob Costas
Image
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
Bob Costas
Image
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
Image
All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.
Bob Costas
Image
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
Image
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
Bob Costas
Image
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
Bob Costas