I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.
My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.
I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.
I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.
I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.
I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.
I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.
We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful. But I'm an older guy who is on his way out so they brought me in as a consultant for the new, up-and-coming CEO. I'm here for him.
Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.
I would love an extension, who wouldn't? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I'll sign it right now. I won't even read the contract. I'm just here to take care of business and I know can help give the city what it's looking for.
It matters in a fatherly way.
