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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

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.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

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.