I'm up for challenges. I'm up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges... And I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie.
I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.
Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.
I was always with my dad and my brother. I know that if you can't keep up, you get left behind. So you learn to pull your weight. You learn to not be the one that's causing the problems, whether we're camping, where I'd better be the one to help put up the tent.
Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.
But I think in the midst of working, you can't get too crazy serious.
I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.
You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.
I know who I am. When you get comfortable with yourself like that and you know you're doing the right thing, you can take a lot of crap.
But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing and experience.
The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.
The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.
You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.
But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.
I was living my dream as a WNBA player.
My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.
I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.
It's one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it's a grind. It's a lot of hard work.
I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.
If I went to play for Lithuania or Latvia, no one would have talked about it.
