Quotes from 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.

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

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.

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

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.

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

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.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

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