“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.”

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.

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.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one’s career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.

I had once thought I would become a doctor but gave up on the thought soon enough. I took up the racquet instead. Later, when I saw my sister studying so much to become a doctor, I was like, ‘Thank God I am a shuttler!’

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be ‘big,’ since it’s the start of your whole career graph.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.