Lisa Leslie Quotes

My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

I am honored to join the CBS Sports family to inspire, entertain and deliver insight on a platform with amazing women doing what we do best - talk sports. I am excited to have the opportunity to be a part of such a ground-breaking show. Yet we cannot do it alone. We hope to have the support of men and women'

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

We are women. We are attractive. We have great bodies. You can't escape that fact, so why not use it to our advantage? If sex sells, I'm all for it.

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.

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

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

I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it.

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 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.

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

I've never proclaimed myself to be a shooter. But I am definitely a scorer.

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

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.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity. I consider myself more of a role model.

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.

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

Manu Ginobili is just a baller dude.

Dunking is something guys care more about than girls, There's something about jumping that seems to fascinate guys. Girls are more, like, 'As long as the ball goes in, who cares how you got it there?'

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

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

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.

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.

I still believe I'm the best player. That's what keeps me going.

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.

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

The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

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