Holdsclaw 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.

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

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

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#5. We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

Eric Weiner

#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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#12. When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

Brittany Bowe

#13. 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.

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#14. Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

Muhammad Ali

#15. The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

Judith Ellen Foster

#16. To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people

Ernest Renan

#17. 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.

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

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#19. 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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#20. Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Steve Coogan

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

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. 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.

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

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