When I BROUGHT home a 98 percent on a TEST, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then BRING them back.' My father and NIGERIAN culture has always STOOD for excellence.

I think that if you do WANT to be a fighter, then you need to WORK harder than everybody else and make SURE that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've GOT to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not GOING to rush you into the ring before you're ready.

The important THING in LIFE is not VICTORY but COMBAT; it is not to have vanquished but to have FOUGHT well.

I HOPE that at the end of the seven years, PEOPLE will say that I have been of some inspirational VALUE to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing IRELAND.

We have to REALIZE we are BUILDING a MOVEMENT.

I think I started LEARNING lessons about being a GOOD person LONG before I ever KNEW what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

A WOMAN in love will do ALMOST ANYTHING for a MAN, except give up the desire to IMPROVE him.

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I GOT to KNOW EVERYBODY in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two WEEKS.

I am TRULY INDEPENDENTLY owned and OPERATED.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural ROOTS and CAUSES to it. So if we wanted to change WOMEN's lives, we need to deal with those ROOT causes.