Doris Burke

“I started broadcasting in 1992, calling Providence College women's basketball on radio. From there to an analyst on the NBA. Think of that journey and every step in between. It's special.”

“I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.”

“I remember being in a parking lot, I think it was in New Mexico, I was to be at a shoot-around at 9 A. M. their time. And I got off the phone with Sarah and Matthew and I sat in that parking lot and cried for a little bit. Because I had been away so much. It got to the point where I was calculating how much time I had been away from the kids.”

“Miami is a remarkably resilient, opportunistic team.”

“I feel like I've been playing, coaching and covering basketball my entire life.”

“There's a saying in basketball: Game recognize game.”

“When I started my career, I can say my interviewing skills were not my strong suit.”

“Dick Vitale always used to say to me, 'Remember, this is an entertainment medium.' People are not tuning in to a game to know how smart you are about basketball; they wanna enjoy it. And it took Dick years of saying that for me to settle in and say, 'It's also okay for me to have a little fun on the air.'”

“If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years.”

“I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.”

“I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.”

“I used to nitpick Maya Moore for not getting to the free-throw line more.”

“One thing I'm amazed at is the younger generation of female broadcasters and what they've achieved, and the first person to come to mind is Candace Parker. I remember Candace when she first joined the TNT team, and I marveled at how comfortable she was right away in the television environment.”

“I was, at times, painfully shy as a kid and all the way through college.”

“I wasn't the first woman to try to make it in the world of sport, right? There were so many that came before me.”

“There's not an athlete in the world who doesn't deal with the same issues you and I have: frustrations with our family, dealing with tragedy or loss, or happiness and a child's birth.”

“I'm not having plastic surgery.”

“The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.”

“I always put my head down, work as hard as I can, and sort of let the chips falls were they may.”

“As an interviewer, I don't think you can dance around the subject. Certainly the interview subject knows if you are dancing, and the viewer knows that you are dancing. If it's a hard question, you just have to ask it.”