Top 100 Quotes About Volleyball
#2. 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
#3. Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail Parent
#4. If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the right foods, it's not going to equal out. You're not going to get the results you want.
Misty May-Treanor
#5. I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
Vince Lombardi
#6. I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
Danny Strong
#7. We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Pat Summitt
#8. Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
John Kessel
#9. Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
Ettore Messina
#10. We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.
Misty May-Treanor
#11. Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
John Kessel
#12. 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.
Kerri Walsh
#13. Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
Gabrielle Reece
#14. Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
Ursula Burns
#15. I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.
Summer Altice
#16. 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
#17. In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.
John Kessel
#18. In tactics, no information is better than too much ... because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.
Giovanni Guidetti
#19. The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.
Jay Mohr
#20. Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.
Karch Kiraly
#21. Since I decided to buy an island and move there with my favorite volleyball," Deacon shot back, watched his friend's lips twitch, ignored it, and moved into the room, shrugging off his coat and throwing it on the bed.
Kristen Ashley
#22. I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives, the adrenaline can't help but take over. I love the sense of accomplishment and camaraderie that the indoor game can engender.
Karch Kiraly
#23. For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you're close to something like that. It's really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.
Behati Prinsloo
#24. There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.
Tupac Shakur
#25. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
#26. The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
Novak Djokovic
#27. 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
#28. I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
Theophilus London
#29. The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Bobby Knight
#30. 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
#33. 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
#34. No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
John Kessel
#35. Something is not right,' Weavyr announced. She crouched lower over one spot in the Wyrd and tugged, redirecting the threads. In the moments that followed, throughout the world, hearts were broken, brilliant careers were launched and dreams were dashed. A volleyball serve also went awry.
Maurissa Guibord
#36. 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
#37. She played pretty much every sport, her favorite being volleyball. My favorite part of her: she had that smart, I'm-too-good-for-this-I-read-Vonnegut attitude about her.
RH Ramsey
#38. Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.
Karch Kiraly
#39. 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
#40. At the edge of the pit, she launches herself into the air: Jane of the Jungle, the Human Volleyball, Centrifugal Force Girl. For four seconds, she flies. And of those four seconds, she only screams in terror for three.
Rachel Sharp
#41. 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
#42. It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either.
Karch Kiraly
#43. We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.
Hugh McCutcheon
#44. Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
John Kessel
#45. I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.
Vivica A. Fox
#46. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
Mike Krzyzewski
#47. Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. -
Marv Dunphy
#48. 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.
Bethany Hamilton
#49. I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
Teddy Sears
#50. 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
#51. My mentality has always been, If I'm not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn't going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.
Gigi Hadid
#52. I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.
Ginger Rogers
#53. 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.
April Ross
#54. Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
Liam Hemsworth
#55. 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. -
John Kessel
#56. If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
Pat Summitt
#57. I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
Victor Webster
#58. A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.
Misty May-Treanor
#59. 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
#60. The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back
Lloy Ball
#62. I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.
Summer Altice
#63. Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
George Vecsey
#64. I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.
Greg Chappell
#66. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
Mike Krzyzewski
#67. Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.
Jim Tressel
#68. You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.
Jose Mourinho
#70. 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
#71. I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
Zosia Mamet
#72. Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.
Guy Kawasaki
#73. They were all on the volleyball team together and tall and fit as colts and when they went for runs it was what the track team might have looked like in terrorist heaven.
Junot Diaz
#74. Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
Vince Lombardi
#76. It's just the easiest way to score a point.
Lloy Ball
#77. Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.
John Kessel
#78. I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn't want a lawyer representing me to think like that. I wouldn't want a doctor operating on me to think like that.
Russ Rose
#79. 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
#80. Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.
Viacheslav Platonov
#82. I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.
Stephan James
#83. This is all made worse by the fact that I'm competitive. Not normal-people competitive. Not friendly competitive. Scary-psychotic competitive. Never hand me a volleyball. Don't ask me to play a fun hand of cards. I have never heard of a casual round of Scrabble.
Shonda Rhimes
#84. 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
#85. Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.
John Kessel
#86. I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic.
Prince Fielder
#88. I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.
Kerri Walsh
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
John Kessel
#92. I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.
Sarah Shahi
#93. Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.
Stephan James
#94. People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.
Kerri Walsh
#95. 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
#96. It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
Mike Krzyzewski
#97. I grew up on the beach, so I'm really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.
Gigi Hadid
#99. In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
Mike Krzyzewski
#100. You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.
Marc Wilmots
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