Sue Bird

Athlete

100 Quotes

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

I think when you're a kid coming out of college, you're just kinda going with the flow. You don't really understand what's happening around you - you're just out there playing basketball - but now that I'm older and I see where the league has come in my 15 years, it's pretty cool to have witnessed it.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

I don't really see myself as a sneakerhead. I think I'm someone that likes to have a nice pair of shoes on when they're playing.

At the end of the day, you have to put yourself first.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

I read 'Twilight' when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn't expect to, because I generally don't like fantasy like that because it's far-fetched, but I liked it. It's pretty good.

The only thing that I've really noticed in my own experience is just people kind of saying that a woman, when they react to something exciting, 'Oh, that's a masculine way of reacting.' And to me, that's absurd. It's like, that's how humans - they get excited, and you yell, and you jump, and you flex. That's what you do.

At some high schools, you're the star player, and everything revolves around you.

I thought that basketball and soccer were hard. And then I went to track practice. It's just running and running and running. And my event was the 400 hurdles. I ended up qualifying for state. But looking back on it, track was hard.

In the past, I've told people to get me DVDs: like, the box sets of entire series. When you're overseas and there isn't much else to do, they can be great.

People have this kind of different image of what Israel is and what it's about. And yes, there are military people all over, but there's so much more.

Be a gunner? Me? I don't think I can do it. But I'll go for whatever the assist record is.

I've become really strict in a lot of ways, but I'm also very lenient. I'm kind to myself.

I actually don't consider myself that private. I know that's how I've been characterized. That's OK.

I can be quiet and a little shy.

I really subscribe to the 'look good, feel good' mantra in terms of playing, in terms of getting out there.

Ten years from now, we'll still be talked about as the first gay couple that ESPN had in 'The Body Issue.' You might not realize, in the moment, the impact that something like that can have. Every now and then, when you talk to people and hear the reactions, maybe we helped somebody.

I've always played in a team atmosphere.

I love sneakers. My storage room is 75 percent sneakers.

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