Quotes from Doris Burke

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

The first time I did a men's game, it was strictly because of an emergency. I went down with no preparation, but I was a fan and knew the teams. And I knocked them dead, so the next year, I had a package of men's games.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

My strength is that I know the game so well. Whatever shortcomings I had because of lack of experience, I could always overcome those because the bottom line was, I knew the game.

You're going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy's frustration if his team had a tough quarter.

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.

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would have scared the absolute daylights out of me.

People have asked me, 'Do you consider yourself a trailblazer?' Absolutely not. And the reason I say this is, I am aware of the women who came before me.

There are moments where you can be seduced by Andrew Wiggins.

And I loved every single second of being an assistant coach. I loved it.

If you're anything less than who you are and you're not authentic, people pick up on it.

I want girls to dream big and to think that there is nothing that is impossible.

I take enormous energy from the players on the court.

Most people enter my business thinking of being on-air or a director. I started because I wanted to start a family.

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.

I believe if the players and coaches respect my viewpoint of the game, then fans will as well. And full credit there goes to the NBA and to ESPN. They are willing to put people like me in a position to do this.

I'm thrilled that ESPN has been the leader in trying to find opportunities for women in visible and non-traditional roles.