Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Michelle Beadle

I don't watch sports through the eyes of a stats nerd or an anger monger. I truly love stories and characters and the flash and the sexiness of it all.

But I've never been the type to be sloppy drunk in public.

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

I know how to do the other stuff - the 'Access' stuff and go be goofy and all that. That I can do. For me to sit on a desk, when I know on the other network is Bob Costas and Dan Patrick is a change.

But I'm always, always, always excited about new things.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

Career wise, I think the dream for many of us is some kind of late night type of show. Something where you're allowed to be funny and you get to write, you have guests and you get to do silly skits. That is my ultimate, bucket list career moment.

I love clothes, but when it comes down to actually getting dressed, I usually just wear ZARA sweatshirts, jeans and the same pair of boots I've had for seven years, every single day of my life.

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

I'm trying to get better about actually wearing what I have.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.

I'm going to miss the wind tunnel between Buildings 3 and 4. The ways in which the parking situation forced me to get 'creative.' Bob Ley and his snide comments. Trey Wingo and his snarky comments. Meeting so many people who I respect the hell out of. And the bizarre if not dysfunctional 'SportsNation' family.

Moving back to New York is perhaps what I'm most excited about. Alternate side of the road parking. Flip flops on the subway. And any food I want, delivered. Sometimes more than once a day.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

It's an L.A. thing. This is not a town where all the dudes love sports necessarily. I don't need you to love sports 24-7, but I kind of need you to know a little bit and it's a weird place for that.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

Returning to 'SportsNation' is my destiny.

I've been reading everything from serious articles about track to Ryan Lochte's single life.

My big thing is I like to be in a spot where I can have an opinion every single day, and I'm hoping to keep that going because, you know, it's not normal yet for women in this business to have an opinion, and I was very grateful that I got to do that.

Chicago is a good town.

Gift cards are kind of like for college kids and sometimes kids because I think kids love the idea of going to buy their own stuff.

My face turns bright red when I run and will stay that way until the next day.

There's just something about fresh tortillas.

I have a ton of great girlfriends in this business.

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

I can't pretend that I haven't been a Spurs fan for 30 years.

I am thrilled to join the NBCUniversal family and to have the opportunity to work alongside many of the most talented and accomplished individuals in the business.

If some idiot with lip gloss is telling me how awesome Lindsay Lohan is, I'm like, 'No, Lindsay is not awesome.'

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I don't go to events to have my picture taken. I don't really care if my name is mentioned on a blog. It's not my thing.

I've been chubby, I've been skinny, I've been considered ugly, I've been considered cute... It runs the gamut and all of those things are very humbling.

Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

I get annoyed when Bieber breathes.

When I talk about the Spurs in different states, people don't get it. But it's a cool team to root for. I've been a fan since I was young.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

I love Paul Heyman, I think he's the most talented speaker.

My favorite part of being a sportscaster is the access afforded us to some of the greatest moments in sports. Mine came when I was on the sidelines at the Rose Bowl when Vince Young carried the Longhorns to a fantastic win over Colin's USC Trojans.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

I like certain things, I don't like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I'm going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don't.

I'm a pretty competitive person.

If you're not going to love the Spurs, just don't talk smack to me about it. And if you're going to talk smack to me about it, be funny.

I really should learn to be more of a girl.

I'm not good at fake.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I never saw how going back to a job I loved at the No. 1 sports network in the world could be seen as a step backwards. There are people on Twitter that think it is.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

Love me some basketball.

I think being somewhat of a workaholic - and it's not healthy by any stretch - but I think you place your self-worth on your career, and as far as I was concerned, my career was crap.

I feel genuinely fortunate to work with so many friends and talented people at ESPN, who make every day such fun.

I love dogs more than most people I've met.

It's just much easier to wake up and be you and go to bed and do it over again.

My favorite sport to watch is basketball. To play? golf, but I wish I was much better.

Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.

Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.

As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you're talking about or you're A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we've come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but... I just don't take any of this super seriously. I'm not curing cancer and I'm not a doctor. It's just television. I don't know why some people get so worked up about it.