He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. Bob Costas More Quotes by Bob Costas More Quotes From 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 no doubt quite confused by now. Bob Costas confused baseball thinking 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. Bob Costas military believe country 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 long-ago eye names When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. Bob Costas sat loses 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points. Bob Costas nba-championships utah running I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business. Bob Costas jerry want 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. Bob Costas basketball football sports If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. Bob Costas live-for-today alive gun 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 different air people I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation. Bob Costas i-wish never opinion wish
