Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Bob Greene.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Robert Bernard Greene Jr. is an American journalist and author. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was a columnist. Greene has written books on subjects including Michael Jordan, Alice Cooper, and U.S. presidents. His book Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller.
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.