Volleyball famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
-- Anson Dorrance -
If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire
-- Anson Dorrance -
The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival
-- Anson Dorrance -
We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.
-- April Ross -
Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.
-- Billy Beane -
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
-- Bobby Knight -
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
-- Bobby Knight -
I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
-- Bridgette Wilson -
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
-- Bum Phillips -
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...
-- Clive Woodward -
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
-- Danny Strong -
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it
-- David Halberstam -
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
-- Diana Lopez -
I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.
-- Dot Jones -
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
-- Ettore Messina -
To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.
-- Flo Hyman -
If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
-- Gail Parent -
I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.
-- Ginger Rogers -
What you see is more important than what you know.
-- Giovanni Guidetti -
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.
-- Giovanni Guidetti -
My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.
-- Greg Chappell -
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
-- Holly McPeak -
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.
-- Hugh McCutcheon -
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.
-- Hugh McCutcheon -
These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly ... if you have ever seen the great women s teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.
-- James A. Michener -
I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.
-- James A. Michener -
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
-- Jasmine Tookes -
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.
-- Jeff Boals -
Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.
-- Jim Tressel -
I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.
-- Joan Smalls -
Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.
-- John Kessel -
Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.
-- John Kessel -
Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.
-- John Kessel -
An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.
-- John Kessel -
Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor. —
-- John Kessel -
In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.
-- John Kessel -
Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.
-- John Kessel -
You have to learn every day. You can't be playing every day, but you can be practicing. If you cannot be practicing with a net and others daily, you still can be learning about the game by reading, watching and imaging. You must learn every day, if you want to be a real volleyball player. —
-- John Kessel -
If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.
-- John Kessel -
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
-- John Kessel -
The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.
-- John Kessel -
No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
-- John Kessel -
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
-- John Kessel -
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
-- John Kessel -
There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.
-- John Kessel -
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
-- John Kessel -
Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.
-- John Kessel -
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
-- John Wooden -
My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
-- John Wooden -
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
-- K. Anders Ericsson -
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.
-- Karch Kiraly -
We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.
-- Karch Kiraly -
I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.
-- Karch Kiraly -
The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise.
-- Karch Kiraly -
There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. —
-- Karch Kiraly -
It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either.
-- Karch Kiraly -
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
-- Karch Kiraly -
Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.
-- Karch Kiraly -
We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.
-- Karch Kiraly -
Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.
-- Karch Kiraly -
Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.
-- Karch Kiraly -
I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives, the adrenaline can't help but take over. I love the sense of accomplishment and camaraderie that the indoor game can engender.
-- Karch Kiraly -
The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.
-- Karch Kiraly -
Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.
-- Karch Kiraly -
I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.
-- Kerri Walsh -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.
-- Kerri Walsh -
We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.
-- Kerri Walsh -
I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
-- Kerri Walsh -
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, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
-- LeBron James -
Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.
-- Liam Hemsworth -
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
-- Lisa Leslie
