Ed Bradley American Journalist Quotations

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.

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

I did anything that would get me on the air.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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