Volleyball Quotes

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.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

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.

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.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

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.

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

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.

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

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.

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

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

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

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

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.

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

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. —

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'll let the racket do the talking.

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.