Chamique Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.' — Chamique Holdsclaw

I wasn't going to be average. — Chamique Holdsclaw

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. — Edith Sitwell

If I don't get back home to my wife, and if you should see her again, then tell her that I talked of her daily, hourly. You remember. Secondly, I have loved her more than anyone. Thirdly, the short time I have been married to her outweighs everything, even all we have gone through here. — Viktor E. Frankl

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people. — Jerry Bruckheimer

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. — Jose Mujica

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side. — Chamique Holdsclaw

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition. — Alisher Usmanov

I want to be different from anyone ever. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I think I have a great sense of me as a person. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play. — Chamique Holdsclaw

The one thing I've always done is work hard. That's not going to change. — Chamique Holdsclaw

One thing I've become is introspective. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that. — Michael Palin

I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do. — Chamique Holdsclaw

Muse grabbed the envelope. "Everything in here?" Chamique frowned. "Oh, no, you did not just ask me that." Muse — Harlan Coben

I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I never get used to the response that people have toward me. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm the queen of the nerds. — Tori Amos

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me. — Chamique Holdsclaw

It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick. — Chamique Holdsclaw

When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch. — Chamique Holdsclaw

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it. — Chamique Holdsclaw

I've always been a step ahead. A lot of people haven't experienced the things I've experienced, and made me a stronger person. The life I've been exposed to has let me know what step to take and how not to go back a step. I take life one day at a time, and I prepare myself for each one of those days. — Chamique Holdsclaw

While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD. — Alan Schwarz

I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness. — Chamique Holdsclaw

It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward. — Marianne Williamson

Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted. A — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi