Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

I did anything that would get me on the air.

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

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

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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are,…

— Ed Bradley

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if…

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You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's…

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

— Ed Bradley

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

— Ed Bradley

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping…

— Ed Bradley

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter…

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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle.…

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I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was…

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I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him…

— Ed Bradley

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had…

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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting…

— Ed Bradley

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it…

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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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

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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I…

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As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people…

— Ed Bradley

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

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

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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community…

— Ed Bradley