“I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.”

I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

All my movies are achingly personal.

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.