Quotes from Diana Taurasi

If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing.

The thing about Russia? Everyone is Russian. They're just Russian. They're Russian.

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's just different.

I've just really always enjoyed coming into the gym. I don't know if it's the behavior of shooting, dribbling, the challenge of getting a whole team on the same page.

I try to envision what life is after basketball, but I just see myself working out and just being a basketball player still.

I'm lucky to have Penny around, she keeps the ship afloat.

If anything, when you play against family, you never want to lose, whether it's your sister or it's your best friend. When you know that person so well, at the end of the day, you want to beat them.

I am bilingual.

I'm going to do everything I can to play at a high level. I say this to a lot of my good friends: 'The minute you see that I suck, tell me and I'm out.' Instead of lying to me, someone let me know!

Personal relationships become really hard when you're away from home and long-distance.

A lot of stuff has happened to me and Phoenix has always been there for me.

It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don't know where it takes you sometimes.

Everyone calls me 'Dee.'

For as many championships that I've won, I've been on a lot of teams that haven't won one.

It's funny, there's all these slogans like 'you're never too old to keep dreaming.' You know it's funny how in the basketball world, and in the business world where you're just supposed to stop. In the sports world, I feel like at 35 you're just supposed to stop. If you do, that's great.

I am very much the daughter of immigrants. It's both a point of pride and an essential part of characterizing my upbringing. We spoke Spanish in our house. We listened to Spanish music. All of the TV channels we watched were in Spanish. We ate mostly Italian and Argentinian food.

I just knew I wanted to play basketball for as long as I could.

I've been really lucky, played with a lot of great players, lot of great coaches.

I fell in love with the LeBron 10s, I wore those for about five-and-a-half years and I didn't switch over until the 14s.

Winning on the road is always great. If you ask anyone, there's nothing like going into a building with your crew and trying to get a win.

A lot of teams with expectations crumble.

Any league that talks about that - they care about their players - is lying.

I can say I want to be known as the prettiest player ever but I don't control that, the people control that. So all I can do is show up to work every day and give my best.

I always wanted to be a dentist.