Volleyball Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

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

Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.

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.

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

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

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

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.

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.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

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.

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.

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

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. —

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

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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