Volleyball Quotes · Page 7

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

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

— Viacheslav Platonov

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by…

— John Kessel

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

— Jose Mourinho

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all…

— Newt Gingrich

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make…

— Karch Kiraly

After dealing with people, I'm beginning to think Tom Hanks had the right idea by befriending a volleyball.

— Anonymous

We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to…

— April Ross

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I…

— Gigi Hadid

My first sport was volleyball, and then somebody told me about cross-country. They said it was outdoors, coed, and everybody got to…

— Daryn Kagan

I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at…

— Prince Fielder

There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind…

— Michael Lewis

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…

— Russ Rose

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships,…

— Mike Krzyzewski

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits…

— Billy Beane

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my…

— Misty May-Treanor

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is…

— Kerri Walsh

Basketball is not my favorite, but I enjoy playing it and it's helped my volleyball.

— Jordan Larson

You know the opposing team is bad when their first server whips out an underhand serve.

— Anonymous

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete…

— Gail Kim

People think of beach volleyball as something you just play and have fun. They don't realize there's a lot of discipline involved…

— Karch Kiraly

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

— Vince Lombardi

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

— Pat Riley

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

— Vivica A. Fox

I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

— Teddy Sears

I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.

— Cheryl Burke

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

— John Kessel

A gold medal is a goal and something that we've never done before as the United States indoor women's volleyball team.

— Jordan Larson

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from…

— Gigi Hadid

There will always be people who think volleyball, at least for boys anyway, is a sport you play when you can't letter…

— Karch Kiraly

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

— Viacheslav Platonov

Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.

— Jeff Boals

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

— Hugh McCutcheon

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

— John Kessel

I played volleyball in college. I was the girl next door, never wanted to be in the limelight.

— Charlotte Flair

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

— Anson Dorrance

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

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter…

— Ted Williams