You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

There is always a solution to any problem.Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become a victim.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.