I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

You're measured by championships no matter what.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

For me, family has always come first.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

There are no answers, only choices.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.