Elena Delle Donne Quotes

#1. When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.

Elena Delle Donne

#2. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

R.D. Laing

#3. I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

Homer

#4. Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.

Elena Delle Donne

#5. I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.

Elena Delle Donne

#6. I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

Elena Delle Donne

#7. Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Peter Dinklage

#8. He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.

Elena Delle Donne

#10. War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

#11. That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

Elena Delle Donne

#12. It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

Elena Delle Donne

#13. My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

Gerard Depardieu

#14. I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.

John Battelle

#15. As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

Elena Delle Donne

#16. I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.

Elena Delle Donne

#17. Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

Elena Delle Donne

#18. Disorder created connections--that is, resonance.

Eric Abrahamson

#19. I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

James Boswell

#20. I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.

Elena Delle Donne

#21. I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine De La Baume

#22. Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

Laozi

#23. You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.

Edan Lepucki

#24. People do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#25. You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

Elena Delle Donne