American - Journalist | June 22, 1941 - November 9, 2006
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
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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 stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
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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.
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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 what it comes back to.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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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.
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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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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
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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.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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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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