Ed Bradley Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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

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