"Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus."

"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."

"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."

"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."

"I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist."

"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."

"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

"In real life, events seem much less dramatic."

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

"I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes."

"Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention."

"A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."

"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood."

"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."

"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."

"Being a novelty had its advantages."

"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion."

"The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn."

"Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that."

"You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal."

"You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off."

"It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana."

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."

"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can."

"If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates."

"If you have four years to complete your college education, do it."

"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there."

"My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog."

"My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field."

"Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost."

"So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally."

"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."

"I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it."

"I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does."

"I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits."

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games."

"I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore."

"I love going out and doing new things."

"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college."

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out."

"I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything."

"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

"So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball."

"As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th."

"Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps."