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29 quotes by Ed Bradley

Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, CBS Sunday Night News with Ed Bradley. He received several awards for his work including...
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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 patterned myself after, the people who... →

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

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

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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.

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I did anything that would get me on the air.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 a summer league, and I... →

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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 there at the anchor desk... →

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