My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
From Sam Donaldson
It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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.
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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