Chamique Quotes

#1. It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#2. Muse grabbed the envelope. "Everything in here?" Chamique frowned. "Oh, no, you did not just ask me that." Muse

Harlan Coben

#3. I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#4. Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

Michael Douglas

#5. I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#6. When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#7. I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#8. I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#9. A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

Chamique Holdsclaw

#10. Tread softly,
Brathe peacefully,
Laugh hysterically.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Ahmed Chalabi

#12. I think I have a great sense of me as a person.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#13. I wasn't going to be average.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#14. I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#15. My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

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#16. I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#17. War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Margaret Mitchell

#18. I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Jason Blum

#19. The one thing I've always done is work hard. That's not going to change.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#20. Of course you love her!" he'd replied. "She's been your best friend since you both could walk, and now she's grown up to be beautiful, talented, intelligent and witty. What's not to love about all that?

John Flanagan

#21. I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

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#22. I want to be different from anyone ever.

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#23. I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#24. One thing I've become is introspective.

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#25. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#27. I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

Chamique Holdsclaw