Quotes from Anne Donovan

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

I'm not used to being on the bench.

The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.

I've been around the coaching circuit far too much.

When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.

If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.

Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.

Aye subtle hen

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.

I thank God every night for David Stern.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.

You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.

Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.

My time at Seton Hall has been extremely rewarding. I commend the staff for their tireless and successful efforts in recruiting and elevating the program.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.