Bob Costas

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

— Bob Costas

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

— Bob Costas

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

— Bob Costas

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

— Bob Costas

If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

— Bob Costas

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

— Bob Costas

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

— Bob Costas

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

— Bob Costas

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

— Bob Costas

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

— 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…

— Bob Costas

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…

— Bob Costas

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the…

— Bob Costas

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from…

— Bob Costas

His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that…

— Bob Costas

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael…

— Bob Costas

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you…

— Bob Costas

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and…

— Bob Costas

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of…

— Bob Costas

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80.…

— Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should…

— Bob Costas

I can't do anything about how people who are all but completely unaware of my actual motivations and my actual thought process…

— Bob Costas

You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going…

— Bob Costas

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a…

— Bob Costas

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game…

— Bob Costas

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store…

— Bob Costas

Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.

— Bob Costas

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

— Bob Costas

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

— Bob Costas

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

— Bob Costas

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

— Bob Costas