Kerri Walsh famous quotes

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now
-- Kerri Walsh

#Want

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Sports #Screw Ups #Balls

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Sports #Passion #Winning

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Athlete #Adversity

When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Ice #Trying #My Best Friend

It's not a sprint to get in shape.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Shapes #Getting In Shape #Sprint

You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'
-- Kerri Walsh

#Growing Up #Support #Weakness

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Wall #Past #Mind

I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Sports #Sexy #Volleyball

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Jobs #Blessed #Work Out

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Motherhood #Thinking #Careers

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Heart #Games

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Hard Work #Work Out

Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Athlete #Beer #People

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Athlete #Fighting #Crunch

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Home #Years

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Winning #Journey

In my heart, I'm so far from done.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Heart #Done

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Growing Up #Hero #Growing

I want to win a gold medal in London.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Winning #Goal #Gold

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Care #Hardest #Competitors

People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Thinking #Years

Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Believe #Long #Battle

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Children #Ifs And #Giving

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Parent #Challenges #World

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Mom #Way #My Mom

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Sleep #Kids

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Aggressive

I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Thinking #Play

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.
-- Kerri Walsh

#Volleyball #Successful #People

We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened,
-- Kerri Walsh

#Team #Want #Deals