Anne Donovan Quotes

Anne Donovan

Profession : Coach

Birth : November 1, 1961

The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

Anne Donovan

Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.

Anne Donovan

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.

Anne Donovan

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

Anne Donovan

I've been around the coaching circuit far too much.

Anne Donovan

Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

Anne Donovan

I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun.

Anne Donovan

Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.

Anne Donovan

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

Anne Donovan

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

Anne Donovan

A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.

Anne Donovan

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

Anne Donovan

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

Anne Donovan

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

Anne Donovan

At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.

Anne Donovan

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

Anne Donovan

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

Anne Donovan

When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.

Anne Donovan

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.

Anne Donovan

Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.

Anne Donovan