I was supposed to be too short to play college 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 got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play 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.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.[Songs of Longing]

To forget God's law is our tragedy.

Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.