A biography for Becky Hammonhasn’t been written yet.
“But I think in the midst of working, you can't get too crazy serious.”
“I was always with my dad and my brother. I know that if you can't keep up, you get left behind. So you learn to pull your weight. You learn to not be the one that's causing the problems, whether we're camping, where I'd better be the one to help put up the tent.”
“But it's been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.”
“The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.”
“I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.”
“If I went to play for Lithuania or Latvia, no one would have talked about it.”
“I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.”
“I think it's kind of silly, actually... I've been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn't ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don't - I think it's a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.”
“I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.”
“It's just really awesome to be rewarded for all your hard work; that people take notice of how I treated my teammates, how I was in my community.”
“You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.”
“But really, I've worked my whole life to become a great basketball player. When I see that jersey go up, I'm sure I'm gonna have flashbacks to when I was 4 and 5 years old playing in my driveway because I loved it. I still love it to this day. It's been one of my first loves in life: basketball.”
“The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.”
“You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.”
“I... scout, I'm in all the film sessions, I'm in all the coaches meetings, I travel... I'm in on everything.”
“If you don't want a female coach, don't hire one!”
“I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.”
“Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.”