"Grissom on the run... The team of the '90s has its World Championship!"

Bob Costas Sports See all quotes by Bob Costas →

React to this quote

More by Bob Costas

“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!!”

“Back from the brink of elimination to the brink of the NBA Finals!”

“Seventeen seconds from game seven or from championship number six. Jordan...open...CHICAGO WITH THE LEAD!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

Resonant Thoughts

"The talk is in your world. In mine – there is eternal silence. My silence sings, my emptiness is full. I lack nothing. You cannot know my world until you are there."

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Education1897–1981

#knowledge

"The heterodox current in Judaism led by Jesus seems to have had no notion of an immortal soul, created by God and then infused into the body: immortality meant being raised from the dead in the body o…"

— John Gray (philosopher)

Philosophy1948

#religion

"As the months of agony advanced, there was bred in the warring peoples a genuine and even passionate will for peace and a united world. Out of the conflict of the tribes arose, at least for a while, a…"

— Olaf Stapledon

Literature1886–1950

#war

"Pacific revolution in America will not be wrought by men who are afraid of losing influence, position, and income. Building a new world is the most perilous form of pioneering, and the most glorious v…"

— Kirby Page

Politics1890–1957

#time