Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbelis an American television journalist and sportscaster, best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. Since 1995, he has hosted HBO's acclaimed investigative series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which has been rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by the Los Angeles Times. It won a Peabody Award in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth29 September 1948
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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...
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
CBS' morning efforts, ... represent the longest legacy of failure that exists in this business, and you just want to see whether you can break the string, whether you can start from scratch and take it out of last. I'll give it what I've got and hope that's enough.
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.
My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.
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.
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.
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.
I've never been exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to being critical of leagues or people in sports, and if this was in any way going to compromise my role as host of 'Real Sports,' then it was probably something we shouldn't enter into, a relationship we shouldn't enter into.
I never had a problem with Bryant. He's a perfectionist, and that's to his credit. When he did interviews, he had these big note pads, and watching him go over his questions was like watching James Levine conduct. I'm a better journalist because of him.
it took bravery to get into the ring and risk his pretty face, it took real guts to step out of the ring and risk everything.