Tina Brown Quotes

I really enjoy working as a pundit.

Andy Gray is a great pundit and a great co-commentator. I couldn't co-commentate for love nor money. I've tried but I just can't do it, so as an all-rounder I'd say Andy's much better than I am.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

One guy that really inspired me was Michael Jordan. I wouldn't say that he inspired me as a sportsman, but I love going back and watching videos of him, especially how he conducts himself in interviews. He always seemed to be very careful about the words that he used and thought about everything differently to anybody else.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

I am not a good cue card reader.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don't call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.