Bryant Gumbel Quotes & Sayings

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. — Bryant Gumbel

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not. — Bryant Gumbel

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch. — Bryant Gumbel

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are. — Bryant Gumbel

Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II. — Bryant Gumbel

The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue. — Bryant Gumbel

In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character? — Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life. — Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again. — Bryant Gumbel

If I'm a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington's promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court's inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn't I vent my anger? — Bryant Gumbel

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. — Bryant Gumbel

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line. — Bryant Gumbel

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself,
and you'll find that the world is
as bold and broad as
the interests that
brought you here ... — Bryant Gumbel

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests. — Bryant Gumbel

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job. — Bryant Gumbel

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree. — Bryant Gumbel

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? — Bryant Gumbel

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago. — Bryant Gumbel

The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It's a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years. — Bryant Gumbel

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that. — Bryant Gumbel

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people. — Bryant Gumbel