I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.