Volleyball Quotations

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

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.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

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.

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

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

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

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

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

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.

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.

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.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

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.

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

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

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

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

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.

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

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

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.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

I worked with her for 15 years. In my opinion she is the best volleyball official in this part of the state. I know I can attribute my progress as a volleyball official because of working with officials like Kelly.

When I came to the University of Alabama in 1996, I was given all the tools to develop the volleyball program. We have an effective and ongoing recruiting program that gives us an opportunity to recruit the right kind of kids.

Last year, we were really on the short side, aside from Rathert and Rachel. But it all comes down to how hard you play. Volleyball is kind of a strange sport that way.

Mr. Wright took advantage of his position as a volleyball coach to form these relationships with his players that we felt were inappropriate and became sexual. He victimized these girls sexually.

She has shown the energy and enthusiasm to build this program. She has been associated with successful programs both on the court and in the classroom. We're eager for her to get started and look for similar success from our volleyball program.

She is physically very strong, an extremely hard worker and is an aggressive, intelligent volleyball player.

She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up.

She did very well in the tournament, but we knew she would, ... Beth is a steady player, she keeps her head up, and she'll just get better as she plays. She's a very smart volleyball player.

She has a nose for the ball and an amazing volleyball IQ. She will need to work hard in the preseason, but we expect for her to be among the group of freshmen to make an immediate impact.

She was very raw as a volleyball player. She's an athlete, and she can do whatever she wants. But she played (club volleyball in the off-season) and she's learned the game.

She was one of the leaders of our team. I'm excited for her, and I think she is ready to play at the next level. Offensively, she's going to be tough to replace. She was so strong offensively and she played volleyball year-round, and we don't have a lot of players who do that. Those are definitely some shoes that need to be filled.

She's played club volleyball and softball. She's our defensive specialist. She's very consistent on the back row. She reads well and is very, very quick. She has a very strong jump serve.

She's gone from not being able to lift the bar, a skinny body that wasn't very strong, ... to now starting to look like a big time college volleyball player - an international level athlete. Hopefully she's going to see great results on the court.

She's a pretty remarkable athlete. Beyond her obvious talents - athletic, bright, very team oriented - the level of volleyball that she's played at brings maturity.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

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.

I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and my dad coached her. I started while I was young and I got a lot of good experience playing against top competition from all around the country at the Junior Olympics.

I didn't have a full team, as some are in the high school play and some are still doing club volleyball things, but we had a good showing.

I am excited to have Burt join the Utah volleyball staff. Our team has high goals in the Mountain West Conference and the nation, and the quality of my coaching staff needs to reflect these goals. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Burt's achievements at Utah State over the last five years and his experience, success and expertise at this level were the reasons I pursued him for the position.

For Michelle, it's an important spring. We will need a defensive specialist or two to step up and that could be her spot. She needs to continue to play volleyball on the side and get better. If she does that, she'll be fine.

Certainly, I wouldn't be opposed to any of that if the right opportunity came along, I would certainly look at it. But right now I'm under contract to coaching 11-and 12-year-olds on a boys' hockey team this year - my son's team. Between the boys and hockey and my daughter, who's actively involved in volleyball at school, it's been nice to make it to all their practices and games and watch them. It's been fun being with them.

Basketball is what I grew up with. I didn't know volleyball until junior high school.

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Harbor Springs is a very scrappy team. There's no fear in them. They are a quality volleyball team.

We lost to a great team. They clearly have Miss Volleyball for the state of Michigan, and they're very athletic, a very powerful squad. I'm so extremely proud of my girls tonight. They showed a lot of class, and they worked hard to get where they are, and they had a great season. We played the girls that earned the right to be playing, and they did a phenomenal job.

He didn't really give a reason why he was stepping down. He did it for a number of years, and I think he was just ready to move on. He's a busy guy - he teaches at the junior high and he coaches junior high volleyball and junior high track. I think he was ready for a break.

I am humbled by these supporters. Indoor volleyball is much more popular here than in the U.S. It's good to see fans show commitment.

I am extremely happy for Sam to join our staff. He is an excellent teacher of volleyball and he separates himself because of his love and passion for the game as well as his players.

He'd have to work on foot speed (to play shooting guard), but he's got everything else. He really can do just about anything. When he leaves the floor, everybody is going to get out of their seats, because he's got great volleyball instincts. He has the ability to explode off the floor and he does it so gracefully. A lot of that has to do with timing he learned in volleyball.

He's back to being himself. Volleyball has just been part of his life for so long that he's got be around volleyball.

He?s definitely our go-to guy. He?s fairly athletic, and he?s got a powerful volleyball arm swing.

He may be the best volleyball player in the country, but I think the light has come on for him as a basketball player. There's a lot to be said about that. Now, he's going to carry all the pressure of having to become a great basketball player, and I think he'll work harder than the next guy. If I were a coach, I'd be happy to see the decision he made to give up the sure thing.

Lizzie plays club volleyball and Trent is an amazing writer. We're lucky our parents didn't stereotype us, so we could figure out who we are for ourselves.

My mentality has always been, If I'm not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn't going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.

My mom used to coach me in volleyball when I was younger. She used to do everything for me. I am a mommy's girl.

Stanford has always been my dream. Being able to play volleyball at the next level is a dream come true.

Playing here is a dream come true. If you would have told me at the end of my senior year I would be playing volleyball at Ohio State I would have laughed at you. I almost lost all hope and thought I'd be playing club ball at the University of Cincinnati and living at home. I consider myself very, very lucky to be able to play here.

I saw the potential immediately, that she could quite possibly be the best volleyball player to come out of Bradford.

I think (that experience is) an advantage for us. They've also been to two state volleyball tournaments. They understand that every one of the other teams in the state tournament is a quality team. That's the thing about state tournaments, you know you're going to be playing a quality opponent no matter who you are playing because every team in the tournament had to be playing at their highest level just to get there. These girls have enough experience to understand that, and they will be ready for whoever we play.

I think what you saw today was two great high school teams. That's what high school volleyball was all about right there. We are a lot taller and I think we hit the ball a little harder.

I think Stephanie was good for volleyball in central Ohio. I've known her since she was a high-school player, and Stephanie was quite a competitor back then. That has been a characteristic of her teams.

Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.

Nationals are so much fun because it's the best of the best, ... You can watch really good volleyball, play really good volleyball and be a part of it. It's really exciting to be around that many people that enjoy the sport so much.

Overall we played well, ... This is an exciting time for girls sports at Joel E Barber due to the fact we changed the sports seasons in volleyball and basketball to play the larger schools. It will take some time to adapt to the level of competition.

Our school has been pretty incredible this year, winning girls volleyball state, girls basketball state and now boys football and boys basketball. So that says a lot about the kids.

Our girls do a good job of keeping a team down, ... Volleyball is very much a momentum game, so it's important not to let a team back in the game.