"We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country."

"That doll looks more like a black man than me."

"This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here."

"Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine."

"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good."

"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women."