Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'cool, that's something I want to do.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.'

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start out at center, I may play small forward, if I get a rebound and you're not there I can bring the ball up.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.