I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

I really felt like we had to have a go to player.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.

I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think more importantly, it was just a great feeling because this team had such strong leadership and they had great chemistry.