Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Cambage - Page 2

People are scared to take a stand. If you do take a stand you receive backlash.

I'm sick of seeing people get hurt and I'm sick of seeing people being made fun of.

On the court, off the court, I'm loving it here in Vegas.

Everyone should have a mental health professional. It's a doctor!

I'm a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

I was raised by mum who's white and she raised me amazingly, but I was never in touch with my black side growing up in a very white-washed Australia.

Living in Europe is very hard. You're away from your family and friends for eight months and playing, traveling, training every day.

A lot of female athletes only have time off when they injure themselves.

It's so easy to forget to stop and check in on yourself.

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I'm taller, more passionate.

Dreaming is my way to be in touch with myself. It's my connection to God. And when I go too long without it, I miss it.

We teach kids that bullying is wrong and I don't think there's any difference when you're an adult.

I feel like a lot of people in sports come from - not bad backgrounds, but they have a real story. They've come from some of the hardest times, and they're out there playing for their family and the first thing they want to do is buy their parents a house and everything.

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

I guess I'm lucky I learned quite young not to really care what people say. I've learnt young to take a stand if I feel like something's wrong.

I'm not one to get a big ego - I think it's an Aussie thing, I just laugh.

I'm more than an athlete.

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

I'm a Leo. We act like these big lions, but at the end of the day, we're little pussycats.

I probably have taught a few people a lesson when it comes to opening their mouth and maybe thinking before you speak.

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

Milkshake' was my theme song as soon as it came out. I think I was 13. I just love Kelis. Full stop.

What you do can consume you if you don't have a release.

I felt like I had to be honest for the people who look after me.

I am really bad at holding my tongue, because it comes naturally for me to say what's on my mind.

I want to spend a couple of months going through the Amazon.

That is the thing that gets me upset, how am I going to sit down and tell my future daughter that her brother is probably going to make 100 times more money than she ever will?

I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated - well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought 'I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don't really resonate with me.'

People may think I put my whole life out there, but I show what I want to show.

It makes me sad that if I have children and if I have a daughter and a son he is going to make so much more money if they both want to play sport.

We are so scared of failure. We are so scared of going after what we want and falling short. There's so many things in life that I put off doing because I was scared.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

I really don't get paid enough to be beaten up every game.

It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.

You see us on the court, you see us out there balling, and there's so much more to the sport than just being a basketball player.

I think it's come to a point in society where brands are changing and they like people and public figures and athletes who have something to say and take a stance on issues.

I know who I am and I don't care what anyone thinks or says about me at all, unless it's my mother.

I would straighten and dye my hair. I'd wear blue contacts to school. I got to a point when I was 16 and I realised this isn't me and this isn't who I am and I just cut that all out. I really owned myself and who I was.