Ed Bradley Quotes (37 Quotes)

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

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.

Despite making the playoffs last year, the team felt it could have achieved much more than they did. We could have done better last year, ... We lost a lot of one goal games.

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.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

When we lost the competition, we lost the public will to continue,

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.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say, Michael, can't do this. Michael, you can't do that. Michael, you can't say this. You know, I think he has been so big for so long that he can do whatever he wants to do.

I did anything that would get me on the air.

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.

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.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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.

One panel after another found that agencies were giving conflicting information to the president.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

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.

I've gotten myself into gambling situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the envelope,

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Because when it gets to the point where it's not fun anymore, I've always hoped that I would have the courage to say goodbye and walk away from it.

I worked to save up enough money to pay off my bills and have enough money to live for a little while, and then I moved to Paris.

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.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

We were the first and thank God we're still ticking, ... We were the first at what we did, the first newsmagazine program. Today, the television landscape is littered with them.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

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.

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.