| "If there ain't basketball in heaven, then I ain't going." |
| "Playing with guys is funner." |
| "He's an Italian softy. He tries to come off with all this machoism, but he smokes his cigar, drinks a little wine and thats all he is." - talking about geno |
| "Shes from California so that automatically makes her not quite right." -Geno Auriemma |
| "That was a back to back right.. back to back.. I was just makin sure..okay alright im good.. im happy." - after UConn wins 03 Championship |
| "A nap, a beer.. I dont know what I need." |
| "Thats bullshyt mother fcukers.. LETS GO!!" -after she shoots a 3 in a Lady Vols face!!!! |
| "Dont mistake activity for achievement." |
| "Theres a point in the game where you've got to just bear down and make shots." |
| "When you step on the court if you dont make your teammates around you better you're not half the player you can be, but when you make everyone better that shows a TRUE PLAYER." |
| "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail" |
| "UConn best in the country.. get over it!" |
| "When it's pressure time and you need to get the ball in your hands and you gotta have the confidence to make the shot or make the play for someone else I've never been shy about it and I wont be because the minute you don't have the confidence in yourself I think your whole game does down the drain." |
| "3 everyone will remember this" |
| "I'm not arrogant, I'm just confident." |
| "Its always nice to prove doubters wrong" |
| "National championship.. those are the expectations every year, no matter whose in the jerseys, what faces come through the locker room those are the standards set so high that if you don't do it you feel like you've let a lot of people down." |
| "What Streak?" - when she was asked about the 70 game winning streak |
| "The minute I picked up a ball I've always had fun with it.. umm.. I mean I always had fun dribbling, passing, it was always fun for me." |
| "From the minute I picked it up, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT." |
| "I don't like to lose, I love to compete, they are one side we're on the other, its war, umm.. if you don't look at it that way if you look at it like.. "oh its just a nice little game" well yoou know what your gonna sell yourself short. If you go out there with a mentality to compete and win every possession make every shot than that's when I think your team is successful." |
| "It suprised me, you've got to win something to be talking a little trash. For a team that hasn't proved themselves in I don't know how long to be talking trash? Once the game starts, we'll see how much they'll be talking." -on Seton Hall |
| "It's going to be a great feeling if we do it. Just thinking about winning that many games in a row without losing and without having that many close ones except for this year. It's going to be fun, now I think we're starting to feel it a little bit." -on the winning streak |
| "And oh my gosh and the neighbor is a sleepin and Diana is jumpin the ball from my garage door and you know and I said common its 10:30/11:00 its time to come inside people are sleepin. "I don't care.. I don't care I want to shoot it one more time mommy" -Liliana Taurasi, Dee's mom on when she was little. |
| "She's cut from a different cloth, she's got alotta Italian in her, God Bless Her." -Geno Auriemma |
| "I just felt like hitting something orange." -after UConn beats Tenn in the regular season |
| "The coaches always emphasize that, "if you put the team first, the individual things will come later." |
| "As long as we've got Diana we've got a chance, and only the great players are thought of that way." -Geno Auriemma |
| "It's like the little kids went downstairs and couldn't wait to see what was under the Christmas tree. And you know what? Tuesday night was Christmas in Atlanta. And playing the role of Santa Claus is Diana Taurasi." -Geno Auriemma |
| "Diana you have the capasity to make the brilliant look redundant" - Doris Burke |
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