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

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.

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