Top 45 Liz Cambage Quotes

I’m so proud of my skin.

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

I’m sick of seeing people get hurt and I’m sick of seeing people being made fun of.

Everything’s a learning lesson.

I was raised by mum who’s white and she raised me amazingly, but I was never in touch with my black side growing up in a very white-washed Australia.

It’s so easy to forget to stop and check in on yourself.

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?

Everything you’re going through is just a test, and it’s going to make you stronger.

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.

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

I matured a lot.

I’m a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

I’m so excited to be the first WNBA player on Wilson’s Advisory Staff. It’s beyond important for women like me to have a seat at the table to influence creative ideas and provide performance insights.

A lot of female athletes only have time off when they injure themselves.

I think it’s come to a point in society where brands are changing and they like people and public figures and athletes who have something to say and take a stance on issues.

I guess I’m lucky I learned quite young not to really care what people say. I’ve learnt young to take a stand if I feel like something’s wrong.

My whole life, I have been told to focus on my sport. But at the end of the day, I’m a human and I’m fighting for things bigger than just my sport.

I’m always eating something to just sort of pass the time.

Australians know how to have a good time. We know how to party.

I know who I am and I don’t care what anyone thinks or says about me at all, unless it’s my mother.

Livestock, a koala, all the same to me. Different but equal.

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.’

I remember when I shaved half my head at 18 or 19 and my mom sat me down. She thought that was me coming out. I was like, ‘No, I just look good with a shaved head.’

When I was a kid, I didn’t have any women of color to look up to in Australia. So a lot of the things I do, I keep in mind that I think I’m making my younger self really proud.

Eventually I returned to the W to play in Dallas, because of my coach Fred Williams. But once Fred got fired, I knew that my support there was gone. And that the only way I could stay in the league would be if I were living near my family on the West Coast.

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

It makes me sad that if I have children and if I have a daughter and a son he is going to make so much more money if they both want to play sport.

We play like fierce women.

I would straighten and dye my hair. I’d wear blue contacts to school. I got to a point when I was 16 and I realised this isn’t me and this isn’t who I am and I just cut that all out. I really owned myself and who I was.

People may think I put my whole life out there, but I show what I want to show.

I’m more than an athlete.

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.’

I don’t think our game is marketed the way it should be. I don’t think we get treated the way we should be.

We are women and we are passionate and we are playing hard.

I feel like a lot of people in sports come from – not bad backgrounds, but they have a real story. They’ve come from some of the hardest times, and they’re out there playing for their family and the first thing they want to do is buy their parents a house and everything.

People are scared to take a stand. If you do take a stand you receive backlash.

We’re different off the court and on the court, but when people say I’m the next Lauren Jackson I don’t really mind because look what she’s done.

Music is a big part of my life.

On the court, off the court, I’m loving it here in Vegas.

We sign $1 million contracts in Asia and Russia and get treated like royalty but when we are here in America we are flying in the back of the plane in economy, playing back-to-backs.

That is the thing that gets me upset, how am I going to sit down and tell my future daughter that her brother is probably going to make 100 times more money than she ever will?

My mom used to call me Bliv – as in oblivious.

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.

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

Something that needs to be better is making sure our athletes have the right insurance claims and are protected when we’re going into major tournaments and representing our countries.