From Sports Illustrated's Jack McCallum: My Sportsman: Diana Taurasi

We don't pick perfect people to be our Sportsman; if we did, the award would be vacant every year. We pick people who put it on the line on, dazzle us with their talent and demonstrate their passion for the game to us, transferring some of it to us in the process. That is Taurasi.

Geno Auriemma, her college coach, once declared his confidence before an NCAA tournament game with this simple observation: "We have Diana, and you don't." We all have her now and it would behoove you to watch once in a while. You just might be talking about it the next day.