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
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
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
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. — Jane Kaczmarek
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats. — Alex Morgan
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay. — Demetri Martin
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement — Aamir Khan
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
Short Volleyball Quotes
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well. — Jose Mourinho
I never did. I only prepared to win the next day. — Karch Kiraly
The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't. — Todd Blackledge
We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us. — Kerri Walsh
My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian. — Gisele Bundchen
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. — Bobby Knight
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. — Lin Yutang
A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts. — Misty May-Treanor
Volleyball Image Quotes
Inspirational 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
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
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 is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball. — Marv Dunphy
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
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski
Team Volleyball Quotes
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable — Mike Krzyzewski
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
After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can. — Bob Hope
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents. — Hugh McCutcheon
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
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 — Mike Krzyzewski
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals — Mike Krzyzewski
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 still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there. — Gigi Hadid
Volleyball Player Quotes
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
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. — Harry Sinden
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
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
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
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
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
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
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart. — Vivica Fox
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
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
There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts. — Michael Jordan
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second. — Clive Woodward
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
All my life, I've dreamed in gold. — Misty May-Treanor
Do you believe in miracles? — Al Michaels
Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one — Mike Krzyzewski
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
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
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. — Martha Graham
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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