You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

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.

My son's got the I.Q. Of a robot but I don't have the dough to send him to school.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.