The first thing I do when I get there—like all of the players on tour—is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.

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.

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

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.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

And finally, and above all love will conquer.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.