Femininity and sport can go together.

Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.