The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
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… — Bob Costas Copy Share
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
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 he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do… — Bob Costas Copy Share
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… — Bob Costas Copy Share 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,… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
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… — Bob Costas Copy Share
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. — Bob Costas Copy Share 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… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
