Quotes from Doris Burke

When my son was born, I was still playing in a summer league in Rhode Island.

I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.

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.

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

There's not a shot in hell I ever thought I'd be a broadcaster for a living.

The WNBA changed the equation for a young female broadcaster who wanted nothing more than to remain close to the game, and call basketball games.

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

I'm not naive to the fact that my gender has at times helped me. Employers are now thinking, 'Let's get perspectives that are different than the ones we have.'

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

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.'

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.

I'm not having plastic surgery.

There is something powerful about sitting courtside and watching closely the interactions of players with their teammates, with their opponents, with their coaching staff.

I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability or job acquisition.

My career is a very happy accident. I never studied communications.

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.'

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

There's a reason Craig Sager is beloved, and it's the beauty and the magic of what Craig Sager does.

I've loved basketball my entire life and to be able to cover this sport is a privilege that I don't take for granted.

Now that my responsibilities are exclusively NBA, I watch two NBA games a night, usually fall asleep in the third quarter of the west coast game.

There will always be a certain segment of the population who turns on an NBA game or turns on a college game and hears my voice and objects to my presence. I've conceded that. I can't please everybody. I don't even try.'

The last time I played basketball it was eight weeks after I delivered my second child. You know that expression - the mind believes and the body would not follow? That was me on that particular day.

If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.