105 Quotes by Doris Burke

A lot of tough players come out of Jersey. Tough-minded kids. That's what I was.

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.

For men's college coaches through to the NBA, I think basketball people are basketball people. When you start talking the game, gender has gone out the window, and they just talk basketball with you.

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.

There's not a working woman out there, regardless of her profession, who doesn't struggle with that work-life balance.

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

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

On TV, only a handful of people can move the meter so to speak - only a handful of personalities can move ratings. LeBron seems to single-handedly affect those ratings.

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