On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

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.

If you persist, you will prevail.

...she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.