If you have a setback, and you’re not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn’t had her, maybe I wouldn’t have had the push. If I hadn’t gone to military school, maybe I wouldn’t have decided to get with the program. Maybe I’d be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
Some days the competition would beat me and I’d go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you’re working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn’t because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
There was a little bit of ham in me. And there’s a lot of people say there’s a lot of ham in me. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. Sam Donaldson Read Quote
