Quotes About The Wnba

#1. Team playing, that's what I see when I'm out there watching the WNBA games. All the girls play as a team, and they have each other's backs, and that's great.

Keke Palmer

#2. Lindsay is unique in that she's a star in creating. She'll create something out of nothing, either for herself or her teammates. She's the Steve Nash of the WNBA.

John Whisenant

#3. When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

Jennie Finch

#4. I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

Sheryl Swoopes

#5. I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

Candace Parker

#6. I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

Sheryl Swoopes

#7. There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

Sue Wicks

#8. I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

Candace Parker

#9. Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go ... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.

Cassie Ventura

#10. There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

Madeleine K. Albright

#11. Have the WNBA lower the hoops. Because even though layups get the job done, they're lame. Seriously, layups look the way Woody Allen talks. Wimpy as fuck.

Phoebe Robinson

#12. The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Marion Jones

#13. There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.

Lisa Leslie

#14. The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

Candace Parker

#15. He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.

Shaquille O'Neal

#16. Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Lauren Jackson

#17. I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Martina Hingis

#18. At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down.

Paula Hawkins

#19. I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.

Manolo Blahnik

#20. Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

John Burnside

#21. Having constant supporters and people who are always there and always giving back and knowing that they're loving what you're doing is always awesome to see.

Jake T. Austin

#22. But without a family, a man is nothing.

Aravind Adiga

#23. I don't mind mistakes," I shot back. "I mind the uncertainty. Most of the time I can't tell what's going on.

Kiera Cass

#24. Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.

Diana Taurasi

#25. The Spurs are a great WNBA team.

Shaquille O'Neal

#26. All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Gerald R. Ford

#27. Personally, I have learned that when I'm experiencing shame, I often act out in ways that are inconsistent with who I want to be.

Brene Brown

#28. Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

#29. With less and less television being watched live, consumers are enjoying the freedom to record at home or in the cloud, watch locally or on the go, and binge watch entire series that they never had the time to enjoy.

Jay Samit

#30. You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought ...

Janette Rallison

#31. When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Paul Samuelson

#32. There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

Sue Wicks