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He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Bob Costas

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
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

Levels News Sports
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 Different People
I don’t want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
BOB COSTAS

Baseball Game Jerry Want
All that’s missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.
BOB COSTAS

Championships Game Missing Utah
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

Baseball Player Tests
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
BOB COSTAS

Baseball Hero Strong
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

Ago Baseball Eye Game Long Names
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
BOB COSTAS

Baseball Game Mickey
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.
BOB COSTAS

Guy Running Thinking
Champions don’t become champions in the field—they are merely recognized there.
BOB COSTAS

Champion Fields Recognize
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 Bseball Game Games
If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
BOB COSTAS

Alive Gun Live For Today
The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.
BOB COSTAS

Chess Games League
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

Preparation Spontaneous Use

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

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