John Kessel Quotes - Page 2

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• Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, People

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• There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Games, Two

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• There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Get Better, Shapes

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• Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Real

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• Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Trying, Excuse

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• Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Principles, Tactics

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• 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.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

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• Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Victory, Half

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• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

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• Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Balls

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• I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Art, Player

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• If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Vowels

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• Ethics is for people with full bellies.

  John Kessel

  People, Ethics, Belly

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• Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

  John Kessel

  Volleyball, Play Hard, Use

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• Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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• The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Games

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• Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Asks

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• Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Journey

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• An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

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• Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Ears, Mouths

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• You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Kind

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• Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Teacher

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• Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

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