Quotes from Michelle Beadle

Returning to 'SportsNation' is my destiny.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

I get annoyed when Bieber breathes.

My face turns bright red when I run and will stay that way until the next day.

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

Gift cards are kind of like for college kids and sometimes kids because I think kids love the idea of going to buy their own stuff.

I like certain things, I don't like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I'm going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don't.

Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.

My favorite sport to watch is basketball. To play? golf, but I wish I was much better.

I'm a pretty competitive person.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

I feel genuinely fortunate to work with so many friends and talented people at ESPN, who make every day such fun.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I'm not good at fake.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

I'm going to miss the wind tunnel between Buildings 3 and 4. The ways in which the parking situation forced me to get 'creative.' Bob Ley and his snide comments. Trey Wingo and his snarky comments. Meeting so many people who I respect the hell out of. And the bizarre if not dysfunctional 'SportsNation' family.

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.

Career wise, I think the dream for many of us is some kind of late night type of show. Something where you're allowed to be funny and you get to write, you have guests and you get to do silly skits. That is my ultimate, bucket list career moment.

I know how to do the other stuff - the 'Access' stuff and go be goofy and all that. That I can do. For me to sit on a desk, when I know on the other network is Bob Costas and Dan Patrick is a change.