Ball player Quote by Sean Evans

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

— Martina Hingis

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball…

— Frank Deford

I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as…

— Anne Donovan

I just think we're all high-level basketball players, best in the world. And no matter the outside circumstance, we still have to play basketball.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

— Candace Parker

For men's college coaches through to the NBA, I think basketball people are basketball people. When you start talking the game, gender has gone…

— Doris Burke

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to…

— Liz Cambage

The WNBA is constantly called the best league in the world, yet we don't get treated like the best athletes in the world.

— Liz Cambage

When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have…

— Sheila Johnson

In many ways, I think the WNBA is changing the way America views women and is having a positive impact on the way America…

— Laurel J. Richie

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my…

— Candace Parker

I've been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they're…

— Jalen Rose