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.

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.

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

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.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.