Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Cambage
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian basketball player Liz Cambage.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I think guards need to be able to have a post up in their game when mismatches happen and I think post players need to have an outside game, and that's something I've always worked on.
I'm so excited to be the first WNBA player on Wilson's Advisory Staff. It's beyond important for women like me to have a seat at the table to influence creative ideas and provide performance insights.
I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.
Music is a big part of my life.
I think a lot of the things I do are because I want to be the idol or the role model that I never had when I was a kid.
You can't please everyone. You're not an avocado. Not everyone's going to love you.
Even playing in China and with the Opals, basketball got really negative for me.
A lot of my life is just - a lot of my life I've just felt like a piece of meat. No one actually really cares, they only care if you're playing.
I'm always eating something to just sort of pass the time.
I always pack too much, but I'm just nervous I'll forget something.
We're different off the court and on the court, but when people say I'm the next Lauren Jackson I don't really mind because look what she's done.
As a teenager I was really self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone else. And in Australia there weren't many black girls around - there definitely weren't any dark girls on TV - so I didn't really have anyone to look up to.
If you want this game to be at the top level, you have to treat your players like they're top level.
We play like fierce women.
Girls always ask me where I shop because I'm so tall, and I say, 'Ah, the store.' I don't really need special fittings.
It wasn't until I moved to America that I started to really embrace my body and my skin color and who I really am.
It's funny, we make all these sacrifices for our nation, but are we really getting looked after properly at the end of the day?
Australians know how to have a good time. We know how to party.
Eventually I returned to the W to play in Dallas, because of my coach Fred Williams. But once Fred got fired, I knew that my support there was gone. And that the only way I could stay in the league would be if I were living near my family on the West Coast.
I was bullied since primary school, for everything.
I guess it's something I have been working on - my outside game.
It's hard: For someone who travels as much as I do - who has to make her living on the road eight months out of the year - relationships are incredibly important. But at the same time, they're incredibly hard to maintain.
Everything you're going through is just a test, and it's going to make you stronger.
My mom used to call me Bliv - as in oblivious.
I'm not a WWE wrestler and that's how it feels sometimes out on the court.
I'm so proud of my 6-foot-8 body and everything I can do with it.
I think everyone needs to be versatile to better their game.
I'm so proud of my skin.
Growing up for me, it was so hard. I had no one who was different to look up to.
My mental health has negatively impacted my ability to do my job.
I've spent a lot of years confused. Am I straight? Am I bi? Is there something wrong with me that I'm not attracted to girls? Everyone's always expecting me to be gay. I'm like, 'No, I love men.'
Social issues is something I've been a part of changing and pushing for. It's embedded and ingrained in my soul. It's not something that personally I try to plan. It just comes in the heat of the moment.
Something that needs to be better is making sure our athletes have the right insurance claims and are protected when we're going into major tournaments and representing our countries.
My whole life, I have been told to focus on my sport. But at the end of the day, I'm a human and I'm fighting for things bigger than just my sport.
As a female athlete, I feel like I'm not allowed to be sexy and I'm not allowed to be that person.
I matured a lot.
It's just funny how people talk so much and I just let my game speak for itself.
I love switching onto a point guard or pushing the big up the court, but playing against Candace Parker would be awesome.
People don't realize how fast fire can move.
I know in Australia I have a lot of girls that look up to me and they send me messages on my Facebook and stuff, which is always lovely, and I think of myself as a really good role model.
We are women and we are passionate and we are playing hard.
I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.
When I joined the Australia team, I was 17 or 18.
We live in a world where we just have to adapt. You can't sit around and cry. You've got to get a move on, that's the way the world is.
We know the WNBA is not making billions of dollars like the NBA, but we want to be in a place where we don't have to play basketball all year round.
The WNBA is constantly called the best league in the world, yet we don't get treated like the best athletes in the world.
All society wants from me is to sit down, shut up, go to training and play my sport.
Everything's a learning lesson.
The NBA and WNBA, I'm so very grateful for their support.
Australia isn't the most diverse place when it comes to media and advertising. I literally had no one to look at on TV other than Beyonce and Rihanna - and I definitely do not look like those amazing women.
I'm plant-based and don't eat animals.
I don't think our game is marketed the way it should be. I don't think we get treated the way we should be.
I grew up playing piano and violin, and then basketball took over.
I remember when I shaved half my head at 18 or 19 and my mom sat me down. She thought that was me coming out. I was like, 'No, I just look good with a shaved head.'
Livestock, a koala, all the same to me. Different but equal.
I've battled mental health problems - first, anxiety, and later the depression that anxiety can trigger - on and off for about half my life. Which I don't think is breaking news to anyone: it's something I've been honest about, both privately and publicly, as much as I can.
Being a thicker post player, and being someone who grew up with self-confidence issues, it's pretty empowering that I've been chosen as this figurehead of basketball in my sport.
We sign $1 million contracts in Asia and Russia and get treated like royalty but when we are here in America we are flying in the back of the plane in economy, playing back-to-backs.
When I was a kid, I didn't have any women of color to look up to in Australia. So a lot of the things I do, I keep in mind that I think I'm making my younger self really proud.
When I'm down and out, some days I really don't understand why I was given this vessel, this body, that is so different and has been treated so differently my whole life.
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