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" It is very exciting to have the opportunity to return to the East Coast and join the Liberty family. "
Anne Donovan
Return
Liberty
Family
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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. "
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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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" I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun. "
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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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" 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'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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" 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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" 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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" Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength. "
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" I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background. "
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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 thank God every night for David Stern. "
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" The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available. "
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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've been around the coaching circuit far too much. "
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" I'm not used to being on the bench. "
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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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" There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out. "
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" 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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" You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore. "
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Up
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" I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play. "
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" It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult. "
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