Bob Greene Quotes

United States, Journalist
March 10, 1947

Robert Bernard Greene Jr. (born March 10, 1947) is an American journalist and author. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was a columnist. Greene has written books on subjects including Michael Jordan, Alice Cooper, and U.S. presidents. His book Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller.

Also known as Author

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

Bob Greene
- Writing
- Trying
- Job
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

Bob Greene
- Up
- Service
- Competition

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

Bob Greene
- Exercise
I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

Bob Greene
- Life
- Good
- Work
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

Bob Greene
- Great
- Food
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Bob Greene
- Baseball
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Bob Greene
- Good
- May
- Promise
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Bob Greene
- World
- Work
- Service

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

Bob Greene
If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.

Bob Greene
- Believe
- Trust
Be humble. Be yourself.

Bob Greene
- Humble