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Bob Costas Biography

Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s. He was the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games, from 1992 until 2016. Costas currently does play-by-play for MLB Network and hosts an interview show called Studio 42 with Bob Costas.

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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.

Air, Different, Mathematically, People, Realize

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

Blindfold, Cigarette, Missing, Nba Championships, 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.

Baseball, Player, Tests, Failed, Steroids, Players

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.

Blink, Eye, Long Ago, Name, Names

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.

Baseball, Doctors, Real, Seeing, Stark, Used

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

Baseball, Strong, Hero, Fragile, Lasting, Emotional

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

Live For Today, Alive, Nicole, Ron, Today

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

Added, Armor, Believe, Country, Dirty, Military

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Baseball, Mantle, Mickey

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

American, Chess, Games, League, National

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

Baseball, Games, Doe, Time, Perhaps, Game

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.

Devers, Killed, Sports, Stories, World

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

Athlete, Emotion, Sense, Shared, Sports, Success

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.

Characterize, Completely, Happen, Motivation, People, Thinking

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.

Basketball, Cases, Football, Potentially, Sports, Thing

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

Alive, Gun, Live For Today, Perkins, Today

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

Nba Championships, Lasts, Jordan, Magnificent, Image

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.

Guy, Run, Running, Springsteen, Tell, Thinking

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

Everybody, Gold, Hockey, Same, Sports, Yes

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 frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.

Thinking, Nuts, Games, Call, Ballgame, 1963

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