I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.
The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.
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.
I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.
I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.
...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.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.
You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.
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.
I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.
Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.
I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.
What you see is more important than what you know.
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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.
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.
We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.
I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.
I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.
