I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.

It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.

I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

It's a serve and pass game.

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.

Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

I played a kid's game, I got to do it at the beach, and I was able to support my family. I consider myself incredibly lucky.

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

People of Earth, I come in peace!

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

If there is no dance, there is not music.