Bob Greene

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

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 continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

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 love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.