47 Quotes by Ed Bradley

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

"I taught sixth grade for three and a half years."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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