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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

- Sam Donaldson
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

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.

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.

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

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

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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.