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

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

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

You're measured by championships no matter what.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

For me, family has always come first.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time.

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.