Quotes from Liz Cambage

I matured a lot.

I always pack too much, but I'm just nervous I'll forget something.

I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

You see us on the court, you see us out there balling, and there's so much more to the sport than just being a basketball player.

Music is a big part of my life.

We teach kids that bullying is wrong and I don't think there's any difference when you're an adult.

A lot of my life is just - a lot of my life I've just felt like a piece of meat. No one actually really cares, they only care if you're playing.

We know the WNBA is not making billions of dollars like the NBA, but we want to be in a place where we don't have to play basketball all year round.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

I love switching onto a point guard or pushing the big up the court, but playing against Candace Parker would be awesome.

I think guards need to be able to have a post up in their game when mismatches happen and I think post players need to have an outside game, and that's something I've always worked on.

Girls always ask me where I shop because I'm so tall, and I say, 'Ah, the store.' I don't really need special fittings.

As a teenager I was really self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone else. And in Australia there weren't many black girls around - there definitely weren't any dark girls on TV - so I didn't really have anyone to look up to.

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I'm taller, more passionate.

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

Australia isn't the most diverse place when it comes to media and advertising. I literally had no one to look at on TV other than Beyonce and Rihanna - and I definitely do not look like those amazing women.

I've spent a lot of years confused. Am I straight? Am I bi? Is there something wrong with me that I'm not attracted to girls? Everyone's always expecting me to be gay. I'm like, 'No, I love men.'

We are so scared of failure. We are so scared of going after what we want and falling short. There's so many things in life that I put off doing because I was scared.

I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated - well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought 'I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don't really resonate with me.'

It's funny, we make all these sacrifices for our nation, but are we really getting looked after properly at the end of the day?

We play like fierce women.

I felt like I had to be honest for the people who look after me.

I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.