I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

I would play football, because I love it.

But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.