Quotes by Bob Greene

About Bob Greene:

Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. is an American journalist. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was an award-winning columnist. Greene has written books on subjects as varied as Michael Jordan, small towns, touring with Alice Cooper and U.S. presidents. His Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller. Greene has two children, Nick and Amanda, from a 31-year marriage with Susan Koebel Greene.
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...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or ex...

Bob Greene

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

Bob Greene

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

Bob Greene

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.

Bob Greene

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

Bob Greene

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.

Bob Greene

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBob Greene
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornMarch 10, 1947
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award