Liz Cambage Quotes

Liz Cambage

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : August 18, 1991

We play like fierce women.

Liz Cambage

We are women and we are passionate and we are playing hard.

Liz Cambage

When I joined the Australia team, I was 17 or 18.

Liz Cambage

Eventually I returned to the W to play in Dallas, because of my coach Fred Williams. But once Fred got fired, I knew that my support there was gone. And that the only way I could stay in the league would be if I were living near my family on the West Coast.

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I've battled mental health problems - first, anxiety, and later the depression that anxiety can trigger - on and off for about half my life. Which I don't think is breaking news to anyone: it's something I've been honest about, both privately and publicly, as much as I can.

Liz Cambage

I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.

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It's hard: For someone who travels as much as I do - who has to make her living on the road eight months out of the year - relationships are incredibly important. But at the same time, they're incredibly hard to maintain.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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