Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand. — John Kessel
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. — Misty May-Treanor
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. — Billie Jean King
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. — Mia Hamm
I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps. — Matthew Gray Gubler
In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder. — Li Na
Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly. — Dmitry Medvedev
Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. — J. J. Watt
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion. — Rafael Nadal
Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area. — Sue Wicks
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself. — Goran Ivanisevic
He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA. — Shaquille O'Neal
Short Volleyball Player Quotes
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion. — Mike Krzyzewski
I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game. — Adrian Peterson
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer. — Logan Paul
I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. — Mike Krzyzewski
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts. — Sania Mirza
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court. — Julius Erving
Volleyball Player Image Quotes
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Volleyball Quotes
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
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
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done. — Tom Osborne
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
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
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
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart. — Vivica Fox
You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well. — Jose Mourinho
Beach Volleyball Quotes
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 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
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. — Newt Gingrich
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
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
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
I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home. — Gigi Hadid
...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. — Don Feder
This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.' — Conan O'Brien
I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends. — Teddy Sears
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
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. — Harry Sinden
My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian. — Gisele Bundchen
I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor
That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better. — Russ Rose
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
When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.' — Roy Campanella
I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms. — Nicholas Sparks
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
Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn't have to change into it in the girls' gym locker room and that's kind of how it started. — Gigi Hadid
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time. — Danny Strong
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
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time. — John Kessel
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
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
I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre. — Dan Payne
I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die. — Gigi Hadid
Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion? — Sepp Blatter
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right. — Theodore Hesburgh
Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players. — John Kessel
Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done. — Jeff Boals
Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that? — Mike Dodd
I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it. — Greg Chappell
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking. — Giovanni Guidetti
For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated. — Viacheslav Platonov
Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom. — Karch Kiraly
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
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
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena. — Anson Dorrance
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