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“Look, no one grew up watching NFL football with me. I'm well aware of that.”
“I am grateful for FaceTime.”
“It's so important for young girls see that it's not weird for girls to understand what happens in the red zone. It's not rocket science. For a lot of the girls that I grew up around, that's common knowledge.”
“I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's job.'”
“I still get a rush of adrenaline after a big game, but the older I get, the more I laugh at the days when I was nervous to interview an athlete or coach.”
“Growing up in a sports household where my dad was a coach, I never had to fake my knowledge.”
“I have nothing to complain about, but it was new for me to figure out how to balance being the best at my job, and also as a woman, to be a good friend, girlfriend, daughter, and all of the things away from my job that are important to me.”
“If somebody would have told me as a kid that when I was 30, I'd get to cover the Phoenix Suns for my local station, I would have thought I had made it.”
“We have such a weird celebrity culture in our country where we elevate talented, successful, or beautiful people to a level of perceived greater value.”
“Scout has been on 95 flights before she was 1 years old. I remember in the beginning I felt guilty.”
“I don't know how I lucked out so much because I have a baby who likes to fly. She is awesome on the plane.”
“As long as you have a firm foundation elsewhere and don't depend on other people to make you feel good or bad, then I think Twitter can be a great thing.”
“Yes, I did move to New York when I was eighteen to do sports broadcasting. I didn't know how I was going to do it, so I got a job at ESPN Zone, thinking I would meet people in the business. People give me a hard time for it, but they don't realize that they shot 'Sports Reporter' there and that folks from ESPN and ABC were in there all the time.”
“The sexist comments are simply the low hanging fruit for any critic of a woman on TV. 'I don't know what to do with my dislike for this woman so let me just tell her to get in the kitchen.' Well I love the kitchen, that's where all the food is.”
“Look, the term 'high-profile relationship' for us is laughable because we are probably the biggest scrubs when it comes to the way we live our lives.”
“We were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and we just decided to drive to the courthouse and get married. We went to Arby's and had lunch - that's always been like one of my favorite places - so we decided to celebrate our holy matrimony with some roast beef.”
“I definitely did not desire to be in a relationship that people would talk about and ask about outside of my family.”
“TV and social media has such as huge impact for what we think is normal and what is OK. And that's for good and bad a lot of the time.”
“At the end of the day, I thought to myself, 'What do I want to be doing?' And yes, I want to be a part of this industry and in sports broadcasting, but more than anything else I want to be a great mom - the best mom I can be.”
“I'm abundantly aware of the undeserved goodness of God I've experienced early in life. Especially when it comes to the health of my children and loved ones.”