Candace Parker Quotes

• I wouldn’t mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

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• I don’t think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn’t been injured.

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• For me, family has always come first.

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• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

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• I think it’s great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

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• I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

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• I’m very stubborn. I feel like I’m going to play this season.

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• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter’s generation, where their salaries will be similar to men’s. But we’re still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

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• My baby is the joy in my life.

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• Male athletes don’t get dropped when they father kids.

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• It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

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• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven’t arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

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• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it’s time to please myself.

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• The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

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• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

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• So you have to take the good with the bad.

   

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• What’s so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, ‘We’ve been knocked down, let’s get back up’ mentality.

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• You want your coach’s blessing.

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• You’re measured by championships no matter what.

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Candace Parker (20)

Birth:	19th April, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

About

Candace Parker was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and UMMC Ekaterinburg of Russia. She may be best known for being the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game and the first woman to dunk twice in a college game. She was a starter on the Lady Vols basketball team, winners of the 2007 and 2008 NCAA championships.  She won the 2009 Teen Choice Awards as the favorite female athlete in the sports category, and was a guest star on Figure It Out.

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