No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

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 have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.

You know, dark matter matters.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.