Volleyball Quotes

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. —

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

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.

It feels good to show some courage.

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.

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.

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

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.

When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

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.

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.

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.

In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.

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. —

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

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

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

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

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.

What you see is more important than what you know.