John Kessel Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Church

• 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

• The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Thinking, Substitutes

• 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

• You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

• Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

• A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

• 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

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

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Two

• You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

• 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

• 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

• Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Practice

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

  John Kessel

  Sports, Ears, Mouths

• Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Lasts

• Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Errors

• The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Wise, Winning

• False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Sunshine, Darkness

• Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Winning

• Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Venture

• 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

• Less effort in this game makes more results.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Games, Effort

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