In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

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.

Suffering fuels strength.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable therefore death is not evil.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

It's important to have a life outside the band.

Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

Nutrition trumps genes.

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.