Becky Hammon Quotes

Becky Hammon

Profession : Coach

Birth : March 11, 1977

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

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Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

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I'm up for challenges. I'm up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges... And I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie.

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I was living my dream as a WNBA player.

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It's not that I set out to say, 'I'm going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.' That really - it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.

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The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

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I think it's kind of silly, actually... I've been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn't ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don't - I think it's a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.

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You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.

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It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!

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But really, I've worked my whole life to become a great basketball player. When I see that jersey go up, I'm sure I'm gonna have flashbacks to when I was 4 and 5 years old playing in my driveway because I loved it. I still love it to this day. It's been one of my first loves in life: basketball.

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Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

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My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

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The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.

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I was always with my dad and my brother. I know that if you can't keep up, you get left behind. So you learn to pull your weight. You learn to not be the one that's causing the problems, whether we're camping, where I'd better be the one to help put up the tent.

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If you don't want a female coach, don't hire one!

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But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.

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I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

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But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing and experience.

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I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.

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It's one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it's a grind. It's a lot of hard work.

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