The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking into the clubhouse, I tried to introduce myself to people like, ‘Hey, I’m in the booth.’ And they were kind of confused, like, ‘You’re a female, I don’t understand.’ Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
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.’ Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
It’s important to be a positive female role model in a world with a lot of Kardashians. Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
I think this is a sport where we can really challenge all of ourselves as baseball fans, as baseball players, even the casual viewers. It’s just good to think, What can we do that hasn’t been done? Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
I always said this as an athlete, ‘Practice like you’re the worst player on the field. Play like you’re the best.’ Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
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. Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
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. Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
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. Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it. Jessica Mendoza Read Quote
