If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

I can't say that I have a biggest inspiration because I look at all positive inspirations. My mom, my dad and my coach, too, inspire me. No one is bigger. I just use it all and take it and use it.

Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that entombs us, closes our eyes, and blossoms in a beautiful eterneity.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Let there be truth between us.

Christ. Seven years of college down the drain.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.