WNBA legend and all-time great Diana Taurasi announced her retirement from basketball in an exclusive TIME interview published Tuesday, and among the piece's many great quotes is one from Sue Bird, wherein the fellow WNBA heavyweight explains what sets Taurasi—quite possibly the greatest player the WNBA has ever seen—apart from other icons.

But Taurasi is leaving the game in a better place than she found it and has some personal hardware to show for it, including three WNBA titles, two WNBA Finals MVPs, an 11-time All-Star, named to the All-WNBA’s First team 10 times and kicked things off with the WNBA Rookie of the Year award back in 2004.