Quotes and Sayings About Volleyball
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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
-- Anson Dorrance -
If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire
-- Anson Dorrance -
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
-- Anson Dorrance -
We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.
-- April Ross -
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.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
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.
-- Billy Beane -
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
-- Bobby Knight -
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
-- Bobby Knight -
I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
-- Bridgette Wilson -
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
-- Bum Phillips -
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...
-- Clive Woodward -
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
-- Danny Strong -
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it
-- David Halberstam -
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
-- Diana Lopez -
I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.
-- Dot Jones -
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
-- Ettore Messina -
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.
-- Flo Hyman -
If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
-- Gabrielle Reece
