Volleyball Quotes

Volleyball Quote of the day

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

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

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.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

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.

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

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.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

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.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

It's just the easiest way to score a point.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

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.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

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

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

After the game is before the game.

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

It's a serve and pass game.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

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.