105 Quotes by Doris Burke

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.

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

The players and the coaches have been my soft landing spot, and those men and their acceptance of me and the respect they've shown to me on the air, that has changed fans' opinion of me.

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.'

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.

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

I am mindful of the fact that I played women's college basketball, that I coached women's college basketball.

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

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.