Bob Costas quotes

Grissom on the run... The team of the '90s has its World Championship! (Bob Costas)
The men in teal are for real.
Bob Costas
Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!
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Back from the brink of elimination to the brink of the NBA Finals!
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Seventeen seconds from game seven or from championship number six. Jordan...open...CHICAGO WITH THE LEAD!
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A drive to right! Back to Georgia! Gone! A grand slam! What a scene at Shea!
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Costas: But look who gets it next! Enberg: The Greatest! Oh my!
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What's up with the racewalkers? I mean I respect them as athletes but come on... a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest.
Bob Costas
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.
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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
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)
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
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Our game today was produced by Ken Edmunson, directed by Bucky Guntz; Mike Weisman is the executive producer of NBC Sports, coordinating producer of baseball, Harry Coyle. The 1-1 pitch...He hits it to deep left field, LOOK OUT! DO YOU BELIEVE IT! IT'S GONE!!
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Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series-now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
Bob Costas
McKey...gets it in to Miller for the win...IT'S THERE! Four tenths of a second! Yeah, you can dance, Reggie! One of the greatest clutch playoff performers of his generation has apparently done it again!
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I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
Bob Costas
Bryant...TO SHAQ!
Bob Costas