Caitlin Clark on basketball and politics

I think it's disappointing.  Everybody in our world deserves the same amount of respect.  The women in our league deserve the same amount of respect.  People should not be using my name to push those agendas.  It's disappointing.  It's not acceptable.  This league is the league I grew up admiring and wanting to be a part of. 

Some of the women in this league were some of my biggest idols and role models growing up, and helped me want to achieve this moment right here that I get to play in ever single night.  Just treating every single woman in this league with the same amount of respect is just a basic human thing that everyone should do.  Just be a kind person and treat them how you would want to be treated.

It's not something I can control so I don't put too much thought and time into thinking about things like that.  To be honest, I don't see a lot of it.  Like I've said, basketball is my job.  Everything on the outside, I can't control that so I'm not going to spend time thinking about that.

People can talk about what they want to talk about, create conversations about whatever it is.  But for myself, I am just here to play basketball.

~ Caitlin Clark, "Caitlin Clark Says, 'Don't Use My Name To Push Your Agendas'," MSN.com, June 14, 2024

Dave Portnoy on the decision to leave Caitlin Clark off the Olympic team

You people, whoever did this, honestly, take your brain, put it in a museum and study it for how dumb you are.

~ Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports, video tweet, June 8, 2024

Chennedy Carter on her flagrant foul against Caitlin Clark

I'm a competitor.  I’m gonna compete no matter who you are and no matter who’s in front of me.  That’s just what it was.  Heat of the moment play.  We’re getting at it.  We’re going back and forth.  It’s basketball.  It’s all hoops.  After we finish the game, it’s all love.

~ Chennedy Carter, WNBA basketball player, "Chennedy Carter Justifies Caitlin Clark Cheap Shot With Three Words," Athlon Sports, June 3, 2024

Denver Nuggets basketball player: "I think the coronavirus is being used obviously for a bigger agenda"

Personally, I think the coronavirus is being used obviously for a bigger agenda.  It's being used for population control in just terms of being able to control the masses of people.  I mean, because of the virus the whole world is being controlled.  You're required to wear masks.  And who knows what will happen when this vaccine comes out?  You might have to have the vaccine in order to travel.  Like, that would be crazy.

~ Michael Porter, Jr., 22 year old forward on the Denver Nuggets, July 29, 2020

Santa Clara University basketball coach on recruiting Canadian high school senior Steve Nash

After seeing him I was nervous as hell just hoping that no one else would see him.  It didn’t take a Nobel Prize winner to figure out this guy’s pretty good. It was just a case of hoping that none of the big names came around.

~ Dick Davey, Santa Clara head coach, 1992

(“You’ve got to be the worst defensive player I’ve ever seen,” he told Steve and his family as they all walked out of an arena in Vancouver together after a game.)