Diana Taurasi

“Only thing that I'm guilty of is taking too many jump shots.”

“Every training I want to prove myself, every practice.”

“You hit a certain age and it's, are you still motivated to play? It's the motivation, the drive that kind of leads you, and the body goes, too.”

“I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.”

“Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career.”

“My favorite basketball shoe is the '92 Nike Uptempo - white/black/turquoise or you can go with the all black/white, which I loved.”

“When I was 13, we went back to Argentina to live for a year. I got to see my extended family - really see them: where they grew up, how they lived. It was a different kind of struggle. There is no money. There are no jobs. And they still have to find a way to feed their families.”

“I've been really lucky, played with a lot of great players, lot of great coaches.”

“If anything, when you play against family, you never want to lose, whether it's your sister or it's your best friend. When you know that person so well, at the end of the day, you want to beat them.”

“I can play through pain.”

“I can say I want to be known as the prettiest player ever but I don't control that, the people control that. So all I can do is show up to work every day and give my best.”

“I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.”

“When I foul, I'm gonna make sure you know I'm fouling.”

“I've always loved passing the basketball, making other people better.”

“Any league that talks about that - they care about their players - is lying.”

“The thing about Russia? Everyone is Russian. They're just Russian. They're Russian.”

“I even love getting older, and knowing maybe I can't do one thing as well, but then trying to figure out how to do something else. That inner drive, I have it every day.”

“I am bilingual.”

“I played because I love to compete. I love being on the court.”

“I've just really always enjoyed coming into the gym. I don't know if it's the behavior of shooting, dribbling, the challenge of getting a whole team on the same page.”