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Ed Bradley

American,  Journalist
Total Quotes : 26
Sports Realized Covering

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

- Ed Bradley

Hope Luck Work Hard

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.

- Ed Bradley

Know Always Else

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

- Ed Bradley

Business Going Eastern

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.

- Ed Bradley

Game Took Recorder

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.

- Ed Bradley

Never Been Covering

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

- Ed Bradley

Think I Think Sharpen

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.

- Ed Bradley

More Than Lot

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

- Ed Bradley

Me Get Would

I did anything that would get me on the air.

- Ed Bradley

Taught Sixth Half

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

- Ed Bradley

Better Always Worked

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

- Ed Bradley

Me Earth Knew

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

- Ed Bradley

Homework Will Unprepared

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

- Ed Bradley

Love Fell Decided

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

- Ed Bradley

Mom Always Domestic

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

- Ed Bradley

Leader Over Reports

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.

- Ed Bradley

Learned How No Experience

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

- Ed Bradley

News Studio Ever

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

- Ed Bradley

Work Work Hard Me

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

- Ed Bradley

Relationships Important

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

- Ed Bradley