Candace Parker quotes

Candace Parker is an American professional basketball player and sports analyst, widely regarded as one of the best in the game. Her career includes multiple WNBA championships, MVP awards, and Olympic gold medals. She serves as an influential role model for aspiring athletes and advocates for women in sports. Here are 18 of her quotes:

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

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My baby is the joy in my life.

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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

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So you have to take the good with the bad.

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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

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For me, family has always come first.

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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

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You're measured by championships no matter what.

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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

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You want your coach's blessing.

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