She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.