Taurasi on adjusting to the league: "Once you look at it, it's basketball. Being at UConn for four years prepared me as well as any college program could prepare you to play at this level with the pressures and expectations."

Taurasi on Okafor: "I think he’s going to be a twelve-year NBA player, and help whatever team he goes to defensively. You can’t teach that, the way he can time blocked shots and change the game with his defense."

Lieberman on Taurasi: "There have been players that have changed the game, and as history will bear out, I think she will be one of those rare players. She is so far advanced mentally than her years would indicate. I don't see anything in her that says "rookie." Her confidence is like a guy, and that separates her right there. She has all the elements for superstardom."

Van Chancellor on Taurasi: "She reminds me of the legend in her own mind, Nancy Lieberman. Right now Taurasi has not progressed to the point where she thinks she's as good as Lieberman thought she was."