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The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.
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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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My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.
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I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.
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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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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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No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.
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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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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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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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Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.
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It is very exciting to have the opportunity to return to the East Coast and join the Liberty family.
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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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You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.
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The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.
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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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I thank God every night for David Stern.
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I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun.
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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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If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
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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 don't think I understood how deep the Big East was. That was probably something I wasn't prepared for. It's not easy to part rank and make the first step into the middle of the pack.
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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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When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.