Top 60 Jessica Mendoza Quotes

It’s important to be a positive female role model in a world with a lot of Kardashians.

A female voice can automatically trigger a reaction. The reasons why? Sound is the initial thing, and I’ve had people tell me that.

I like it when my heart’s pounding and I’m sweating and I’m nervous.

We’re a role-reversal family in every way possible. And I love that our country has evolved to that. It doesn’t matter who makes money, as long as something is rolling in and you’re happy.

I didn’t play baseball my entire life, so I do bring something a little more unique to the telecast and I get really excited about stuff that, maybe if I had been around baseball my whole life, I would just say, ‘Come on. Everybody knows that. Its not a big deal.’

I’ve always felt that the more prepared I am, the more confident I would be within the telecast.

I don’t filter things really.

I’m a jock.

I grew up in a big Mexican family and… we always were so comfortable in our own skin. So society, the stuff that I think we see a lot now for young girls, didn’t really reach me because I had this huge Mexican bubble around me saying, ‘You’re beautiful. You’re amazing. You’re strong. And be you.’

Embrace the fact that you are different, that your differences are what’s going to make you great and your true friends are the ones who are going to love you for those differences.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

Some of the best memories of my career have been with ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ and I will miss my time with our amazing crew, who have been like family.

If I’m saying something with an intelligent background, then at least it is creating conversation. Whether that conversation is people agreeing or disagreeing, I’m happy.

If you take any player in their position, there’s nobody better than Mookie Betts in right field. I’ll take him over a short stop at their position. That’s how good he is.

I’m hard on myself, like, ‘Oh, why did you say that?’ But it helps me grow.

I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

I just knew: first-time female on ESPN, there’s going to be some backlash, like any change. There’s always going to be resistance. There are going to be people that hear a female voice or see a female figure and are completely against it.

I try to challenge myself, each week, to do something that is a little different or something maybe a little more exciting or personalized.

Anytime I’m like, ‘Ho-hum,’ trying to go about my business like anyone else, I’ll have a father or someone come up to me and say, ‘You know, my daughter never realized she could be in the booth for sports, and now that’s what she wants to do.’

I’m different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I’ve done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, ‘She doesn’t belong.’ I wanna prove to them I do.

I don’t care about Joe Schmo with two Twitter followers saying bad things to me, but if the guy I’m sitting next to on the telecast thinks that way, that matters a lot to me.

Instead of just being the person that’s like: ‘Gosh, that’s cool that people are doing stuff and good luck. Do you need me to write a check? I can do that,’ I’ve always just been very hands-on.

It’s 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we’re hearing female voices as much as we’re hearing men’s.

I’m a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don’t get signatures from most baseball players I meet.

Stanford opened up a whole different perspective for me. I learned how to take my own passions and apply them to so many different topics, to open up the way I saw things and own the things that made me unique.

I’ve learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it’s just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

If you’re good at what you do, it’s going to quiet the people that think you’re not good because of how you look or what sex you are.

If people criticize me because they don’t like how I break down one of Giancarlo Stanton’s at-bats, OK. If they criticize me because I’m a woman, that’s not OK.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

For Jennie Finch, she’s a stud on the field and everyone’s going to love her while she’s playing, but no one is going to forget her because of the person that she is. That is what she has over almost any other person that’s at the top of their sport.

I know that people are going to recognize my voice as being different and they are going to be saying, ‘Let me listen a little bit closer to see if she says something that I don’t agree with.’ They’re probably going to pay a little bit more attention.

If anyone knows women, we like a lot of different things and we’re not predictable. We definitely don’t fall into a cookie-cutter mold. And I think that’s one of the coolest things about us. You never know what’s coming next.

It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.

My husband actually quit his job as a civil engineer so that he could travel, so we could be together as a family while I played professionally, which was crazy.

As an Olympic athlete, especially a female Olympic athletic, social media’s such an amazing place, people are so positive, all these young girls. Anything negative is such a small space, people aren’t coming at you for their gender.

I don’t shy away from softball being my background.

I want to be in the booth any day – Sunday, Monday, Wednesday – it doesn’t matter to me. I’m hooked. I love it.

It started with ‘A League of Their Own.’ I mean, to me, if you played softball or baseball as a girl growing up, that is the staple movie, like, where girls are portrayed as athletes, and real, like, different, from Madonna, you know, to Geena Davis. I mean, I could quote that movie, every single line.

I really try hard to give consistently good analysis.

I don’t shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

I’ve always wanted to see a game at Fenway.

I want to be a role model.

The most erratic thing I ever did was going blonde.

Own your differences and don’t always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

I think all women want to get out of our own little bubble and challenge a man’s world. And I love challenges.

I want to be a voice for women, but I’ve also got two boys at home and my role is important for them, too. Men need to hear a woman who is prepared and understanding.

My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: ‘Mom, I know people are saying you’re doing stuff that’s cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.’ Thanks for that.

When you think about success – whether it be in softball, getting into college or becoming an ‘American Idol’ singer – whatever your goals and aspirations are, you’re going to have to stand out at some point if you want to succeed.

Well, my mom actually taught me how to fish. We used to go when I was little, like 5 or 6 years old.

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

In broadcasting, especially ’cause people are more public, it’s hard to be like ‘so what are you making?’ Finding that information is huge when you’re negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you’re in the same ballpark.

If you truly want to be great, don’t get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

I’m a big Alex Cora fan, as far as aggressiveness, the things that he sees like pitch tipping. His eyes are really good.

I’ve gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can’t help but think, Is anyone listening to what I’m saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, ‘Wow, look at those pants’ or ‘Look at those legs.’

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn’t, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

I feel like so many girls are too intimidated to walk into their local Boys & Girls Club or YMCA – places that have equipment and offer a lot of opportunities to be active for little-to-no-money but are usually more boy-focused.

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I’d walk into a clubhouse, I’d have to explain a little bit of who I was.

There have been so many pivotal moments throughout my career, and I look back and say I really craved big moments – when your heart’s pounding and everything is on the line.