You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.