Quotes from Sam Donaldson

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

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.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.