Author Profile
Dawn Staley
1970 • American • Coach
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Showing 15 quotesYou're going to have more A'ja Wilsons, you're going to have more Breanna Stewarts. You're going to have more and more because if you're growing up around watching the WNBA and watching what college women's basketball is today, you're going to be better because of it.— Dawn Staley
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Women
I understand that my success isn't about championships - it's about bringing together people who were once, and in some ways still are, divided. It's bigger than basketball.— Dawn Staley
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Success
I loved sports, but I excelled at basketball. We'd nail an old crate onto a wooden board and that was our basket and backboard. My claim to fame was my bank shot into the crate.— Dawn Staley
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Sports
I'm of the opinion of, if you're a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman, and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. That's my opinion.— Dawn Staley
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Sports
I hope every school or university treats women's sports like South Carolina.— Dawn Staley
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Sports
If there were ever a secret to being a great coach, that's it: the connection. I need to have a personal relationship with each player.— Dawn Staley
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Relationship
I owe basketball. I'm forever indebted to it. It engulfed my life for the positive. The game has gotten more of my time than my friends and my family. I feel like on a smaller or larger scale, it can impact my players' lives in some kind of way.— Dawn Staley
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Positive
My mother grew up in South Carolina. This was the 1940s and early '50s. Segregation was still legal. Separate bathrooms. All of it.— Dawn Staley
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Legal
Sometimes people make things difficult and complicated, but if you are consistent, focus on what makes you successful, take notes along the way, and work on the things that you need to improve, good things happen.— Dawn Staley
God is funny like that, He is funny. He rips your heart and He makes you believe. He makes you believe the unimaginable.— Dawn Staley
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Funny
The way I approach basketball is the way that my mother approached her spirituality and her faith - she went hard.— Dawn Staley
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Faith
My communication with A'ja was always less about basketball. I tried to be a place where she could let her guard down and just be.— Dawn Staley
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Communication