Top 30 Anne Donovan Quotes

There’s a beautiful thing about experience. There’s a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there’s also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.

I thank God every night for David Stern.

I’m not used to being on the bench.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

I think it’s imperative to keep your focus on why you’re in school. You’re in school to get an education.

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

Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn’t understand the importance of scheduling.

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

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland – and you put on a Russian uniform – you are not a patriotic person.

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 really excited to join the Connecticut Sun.

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

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

I’m the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.

I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.

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

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

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.

I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.

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.

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn’t hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.

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.

No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

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

Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.

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.

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

Your highs can’t be too high, and your lows can’t be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

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