Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'

Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

You have to be yourself. You have to go up and you just have to do it.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.