Quotes by Ed Bradley

About Ed Bradley:

Edward Rudolph 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 the Peabody, the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, and 19 Emmy Awards.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Ed Bradley

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 stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

Ed Bradley

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

Ed Bradley

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.

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 for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

Ed Bradley

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.

Ed Bradley

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

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.

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 taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

Ed Bradley

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

Ed Bradley

I did anything that would get me on the air.

Ed Bradley

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.

Ed Bradley

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.

Ed Bradley

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

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

Ed Bradley

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

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

Ed Bradley

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

Ed Bradley

Author Bio

  • NameEd Bradley
  • DescriptionNews correspondent
  • BornJune 22, 1941
  • DiedNovember 9, 2006
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Journalist
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award