Ed Bradley Quotes
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.