Anne Donovan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.
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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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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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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 thank God every night for David Stern.
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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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You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.
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When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.
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Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.
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I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.
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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 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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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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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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Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
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I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun.
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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.