A biography for Breanna Stewarthasn’t been written yet.
“I have always been a fan of the low-cut shoes for most of my career, but really post-Achilles surgery. Anything that kind of just stays off the scar is better for me, so it's not rubbing or anything like that.”
“To be honest, when I go overseas I have definitely gone to more karaoke rooms than I have in the United States. It's a fun night when you are with good people.”
“The thing with the Achilles is it stays with you forever. So now, I'm invested in every person I come across who has an Achilles injury.”
“It's hard to open up and share your story, but it's definitely well worth it. It puts you at peace. It gives you a better light and clearer mind going forward.”
“Especially when you come from a successful college program, you want to have really high expectations.”
“We all love Coach Auriemma. We all look up to him, and he's a mentor to all of us.”
“It's extremely important for white athletes to speak out for racial justice. Black people and the black community have been fighting this for years. To help make real change, white people need to be involved.”
“When I was in eighth grade, I got the nickname Bean. It was from one of the seniors on the team. She called me Bean because I looked like a string bean. It definitely fit - I was really skinny back then.”
“I'm not really a superstitious person.”
“To be able to play in a league like the WNBA that's been at the forefront of a lot of the important issues like social justice, equality and maternity rights is something that's extremely important because it's what's affecting our league and it's what makes up the majority of our players.”
“As a league we know what we stand for, and what we stand by, and the Black Lives Matter movement is something that is very important to us.”
“When you play basketball, you win and lose games, and there's gonna be an adjustment period and learning to understand what's going on.”
“We can't always just go back to what we know without asking questions.”
“What kept me motivated was the fact that I constantly wanted to be better. I wasn't satisfied with what I was doing. I knew that people behind me were trying to beat me.”
“Everything doesn't happen in one day or at the snap of your finger.”
“When you are a competitor, you want to win all the time.”
“If I lose, it's going to suck, but the other team probably worked harder and won for a reason.”
“Young girls, I hope, when they go in the store, they want to get the Stewies because they want to feel like they're playing like me.”
“As I get older and the more experience I have under my belt, I've come to understand how to love basketball while also not being entirely defined by it.”
“My skill set allows me to do a lot of things.”