105 Quotes by Doris Burke

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

The one thing I would say is, I do think women are evaluated differently than men. How we look, what is our age? Do you see a ton of 55-year-old women in sports television? No. But there are men in their 60s and 70s across many networks who are still in sports television.

I always put my head down, work as hard as I can, and sort of let the chips falls were they may.

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.

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.

What makes great rivalries is when individual or team matchups occur, something's got to be on the line, and usually that's a championship.

For me to even think about attending a college or university would have been a real financial hardship. It would not have happened. That basketball scholarship changed my life.

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 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.