Lesley Visser
Lesley Visser
Lesley Candace Visseris an American sportscaster, television and radio personality, and sportswriter. Visser is the first female NFL analyst on TV, and the only sportscaster in historywho has worked on Final Four, NBA Finals, World Series, Triple Crown, Monday Night Football, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Figure Skating Championships and the U.S. Open network broadcasts. Visser, who was voted the No. 1 Female Sportscaster of all-time in a poll taken by the American Sportscasters Association, She was elected...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth11 September 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I think it will be a heck of a chess match.
There are hundreds of good men in this business and hundreds of good women and there are some who are equally bad,
All the cameras shifted from the players to me.
I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.
I was discouraged that this topic got more attention than Eileen Collins, the female commander who landed the space shuttle Discovery now there's the real deal!
That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.
When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.
Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.
The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.