Volleyball Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

  Sean William Scott

  Play, Serious, Should

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

  Summer Altice

  Inspirational, Funny, Play

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• 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.

  Karch Kiraly

  Beach, Team, Player

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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  For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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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

  Player, Practice, Coaching

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• I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Sports, Perseverance

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Teamwork, Cheerleading, Best Sports

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Business, Inspirational Life, Winning

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational Sports, Perseverance, Feel Good

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Screw Ups, Balls

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• 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.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Player, Long, Coaching

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• The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

  Bum Phillips

  Life, Motivational, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi, George L. Flynn (1973). “Vince Lombardi on football”

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

  Karch Kiraly

  Beautiful, Beach, Air

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• Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Football

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• All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Gold

  "Misty May-Treanor on Olympic victory". www.today.com. June 22, 2010.

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• There's no substitute for guts.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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

  Danny Strong

  Kids, Player, Volleyball Player

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 19, 2003.

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