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“I love the game of basketball, and it has shaped my life since I was seven years old. But as a broadcaster it took me a good 10 to 15 years to relax and allow myself to enjoy the job.”
“I obviously preferred the analyst role to the sideline role because your opportunity to impact the broadcast was drastically different.”
“It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.”
“Please don't misunderstand, I actually enjoyed the hecticness and the opportunity to cover women's college basketball. But the reality is as a young broadcaster the vast majority of my games came in men's college basketball and my viewership as a fan came in men's college basketball because that was what was available to me.”
“If you're anything less than who you are and you're not authentic, people pick up on it.”
“The older I've gotten, the more I have paid attention to disparities, or what I consider to be different treatment.”
“When my son was born, I was still playing in a summer league in Rhode Island.”
“In 1990, I was an assistant coach at Providence College, but I knew I wanted to get married and have children. I did not think I could be a great basketball coach and be a great mom.”
“I've had more coaches in pregame meetings apologize for cursing. I'm like, I swear like a pirate. You don't have to worry about that.'”
“On TV, only a handful of people can move the meter so to speak - only a handful of personalities can move ratings. LeBron seems to single-handedly affect those ratings.”
“I want girls to dream big and to think that there is nothing that is impossible.”
“I feel like every repetition, every game, every practice that I'm allowed to watch, I'm picking up some small piece of information, a nuance about the game or a coach's philosophy.”
“If anyone listens to the mantra that Brad Stevens seems to live by, which is to keep making that next right play, Gordon Hayward seems to be that guy.”
“In college, I had bad hair, bad clothes, bad teeth, and bad skin. That was not a great combination for being a sports announcer.”
“Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.”
“When I started women's college basketball coverage, it was exploding. I happened into a men's college basketball game because of a mistake, someone not showing up. So I've sort of been the beneficiary of good timing.”
“One thing everyone knows about the NBA is that it's very difficult for young players to win at a high level.”
“When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.”
“LeBron James is going to be somebody that I look back on and think, yeah I got to not only watch one of the all-time great players in the history of the sport, but I also had the opportunity to interview him at some of the most critical moments of his career.”
“I knew unequivocally I wanted children and that I wanted for at least a certain stretch of time to be a stay-at-home mom.”