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.
Bob Costas(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
Bob CostasHe was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
Bob Costas