Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

- David Halberstam

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibite…

- David Halberstam

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

- David Halberstam

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

- David Halberstam

During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physicall…

- David Halberstam

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

- David Halberstam

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

- David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

- David Halberstam

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular yo…

- David Halberstam