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" I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun. "
Anne Donovan
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" Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength. "
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" You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore. "
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" If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person. "
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" I've been around the coaching circuit far too much. "
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" I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt. "
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" I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching. "
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" Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them. "
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" I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education. "
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" I'm not used to being on the bench. "
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" When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach. "
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" I thank God every night for David Stern. "
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" A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there. "
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Play
Always
" Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again. "
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" No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team. "
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" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "
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College
Gold
" There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out. "
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" There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road. "
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" I don't know that I ever could've imagined just how blessed my life would be. "
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" I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball. "
Anne Donovan
Time
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" The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available. "
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Deep
Best
Being
" I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background. "
Anne Donovan
Lot
Know
Think
" I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play. "
Anne Donovan
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" I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard. "
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