55 Quotes by Bob Costas

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.

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.