Browsing Topic Best Volleyball Quotes

Don’t let other people tell you what you want.

Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If there is a defining aspect of UNC women’s soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn’t a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don’t buy that because I’ve seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit’s not in there.

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I’m the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

We’ve Tweeted him, we’ve stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.

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

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

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

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.

Oh my god, Jenny McCarthy is the coolest chick. She’s the kind of girl you can play volleyball with and she’s diggin’ it out in the dirt. She’s the girl that’s playing softball – not worrying about breaking a nail. She’s out there breaking nails and diving at second. And then, she’s going to out-drink you at the bar.

Do you believe in miracles?

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5’9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

There’s no substitute for guts.

One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she’s a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she’s fizzled out. Then there’s her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she’s going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.

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

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

Hard work alone won’t guarantee success, but without hard work, I’ll guarantee you won’t have success.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.

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.’

If you sacrifice early, you’ll win late.

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

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.