Volleyball Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational Life, Healing, Balls

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• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• 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.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

  Todd Blackledge

  Sports, Winning, Coaching

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• Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Apr 30, 2010

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

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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

  Newt Gingrich

  Funny, Beach, Years

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• I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

  Karch Kiraly

  Winning, Next Day, Prepared

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• Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.

  Karch Kiraly

  Glasses, People, Hats

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• The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.

  Karch Kiraly

  Sports, Beach, Team

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• My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.

  Kerri Walsh

  Home, Years, Gold

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• A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

  Misty May-Treanor

  People, Doubt

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• I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Player

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• All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

  Ted Williams

  Want, Great Baseball, Life Is

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

  Sarah Shahi

  Basketball, Team, Track

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• 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.

  Ginger Rogers

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• 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.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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

  John Wooden

  Life, Compassion, Rights

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.163, B&H Publishing Group

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• Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. —

  Marv Dunphy

  Athlete, Want, Results

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• Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

  Pat Summitt

  Strength, Experience, Weakness

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• Don't let other people tell you what you want.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Karma

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