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“I always say that I know I'll be done playing basketball when I stop fighting on the floor. If you don't play with that edge or that competitive spirit, you're just another player out there. I can only speak for myself, but when I don't play with that fight then I'm just ordinary.”
“When you play a long time and you get a little older, you can get a little skeptical and become a little bit of a pessimist, and that experience plays against you.”
“I'm lucky to have Penny around, she keeps the ship afloat.”
“For as many championships that I've won, I've been on a lot of teams that haven't won one.”
“A lot of teams with expectations crumble.”
“People say, 'How would you do in the men's game?' I say, Give me a man's frame, and I think I'd do O.K.”
“You can have an all-star team but not everyone plays at an all-star level.”
“I used to be the kid that when we got to practice I didn't even stretch.”
“The minute you get in a five-game series, you start thinking strategy, you start thinking about adjustments. Single elimination, you've got to go all out, all-in. I think that affects the coaching, it affects the playing, it affects the psyche going into the game.”
“Being loyal through thick and thin, ups and downs, it makes the special moments that much more special.”
“As long as I'm playing at a high level, and I deserve to be out there, then I'll always put that U.S.A. jersey on. There's nothing better than that, no matter how many times you've done it.”
“When I first arrived at UConn, I told myself I was going to dedicate my life to basketball. And when you do something like that, you alienate a lot of other things in your life that most people think are normal things to do.”
“It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don't know where it takes you sometimes.”
“I didn't set out to win Olympic medals, to play at UConn, to play in the WNBA. I just loved to play basketball. It's really very simple. Then when you start thinking about those other things, that's when thinking gets complicated.”
“Once you make a mistake and put the control of your life in someone else's hands, it's scary.”
“I never played for the money. I literally played for the love of the game.”
“I didn't do an individual workout until I was 25.”
“The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been irresponsible to turn down. They offered to pay me to rest and I've decided to take them up on it.”
“Records are always meant to be broken.”