“I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.”

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

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.

I didn’t go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they’d let me play.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.