Bryant Gumbel Quotations

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?

The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.

The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It’s a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here...

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

CBS' morning efforts, ... represent the longest legacy of failure that exists in this business, and you just want to see whether you can break the string, whether you can start from scratch and take it out of last. I'll give it what I've got and hope that's enough.

Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the games look like a GOP convention.

While I am naturally disappointed that the show didn't fare better in the ratings, I am pleased with the quality of the broadcast we created. I remain grateful for the opportunity I had to make CBS a competitive presence in the morning.

I've never been exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to being critical of leagues or people in sports, and if this was in any way going to compromise my role as host of 'Real Sports,' then it was probably something we shouldn't enter into, a relationship we shouldn't enter into.

it took bravery to get into the ring and risk his pretty face, it took real guts to step out of the ring and risk everything.

I never had a problem with Bryant. He's a perfectionist, and that's to his credit. When he did interviews, he had these big note pads, and watching him go over his questions was like watching James Levine conduct. I'm a better journalist because of him.