Bob Costas
Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costasis an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s, and has been the prime-time host of nine Olympic games...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth22 March 1952
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Baseball is in a horrible position. Baseball could be celebrating this achievement while (questioning) it. ... (Selig) is in a delicate position. But it comes with the territory.
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Mickey Mantle was baseball.
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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.
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(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
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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.
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It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.
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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.
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He's got to do something (because) his tenure is going to be largely defined by this punishment. Bold action here is not the same as rash action. If he's got the evidence and he's in the right, he should take bold action. Even if he's defeated in court, he will win in the court of public opinion -- if he takes bold action. ... You can be deliberate and you can still be bold. Once he has it, he should do what he feels is in the best interest of baseball and let the chips fall where they may.
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What's happened is that teams have latched onto the notion that Spring Training can be a big revenue producer.
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The amazing thing about Hal and those guys is how much of the game's history they witnessed.
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I don't believe there's a single American sitting around saying, 'I'd like to see Bob Costas' take on this.'
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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.
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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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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.