Quotes on Basketball

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.