Top Volleyball Quotes Collection
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All my life, I've dreamed in gold.Collection: Volleyball
A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.Collection: Volleyball
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."Collection: Volleyball
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.Collection: Volleyball
You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
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. Collection: Volleyball
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. Collection: Volleyball
Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
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. Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.Collection: Volleyball
It's a serve and pass game.Collection: Volleyball
Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.Collection: Volleyball
Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.Collection: Volleyball
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.Collection: Volleyball
It's not all rainbows and ponies.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
Practice is the battle you must win.Collection: Volleyball
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.Collection: Volleyball
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.Collection: Volleyball
What you see is more important than what you know.Collection: Volleyball
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do itCollection: Volleyball
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.Collection: Volleyball
I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.Collection: Volleyball
Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.Collection: Volleyball
Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.Collection: Volleyball
Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.Collection: Volleyball
For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.Collection: Volleyball
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.Collection: Volleyball
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 levelsCollection: Volleyball
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 rivalCollection: Volleyball
It's just the easiest way to score a point.Collection: Volleyball
After the game is before the game.Collection: Volleyball
A good setter is like a waiter.Collection: Volleyball
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.Collection: Volleyball
I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.Collection: Volleyball
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.Collection: Volleyball
The bagger is the technique of lazy.Collection: Volleyball
You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.Collection: Volleyball
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.Collection: Volleyball
If we control the ball, they pay.Collection: Volleyball
Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. Collection: Volleyball
Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.Collection: Volleyball
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.Collection: Volleyball
Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.Collection: Volleyball