Volleyball Quotes - Page 6

• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.

  Greg Chappell

  Player, Young

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• I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Player, Turtles

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• It's a serve and pass game.

  Karch Kiraly

  Games

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• It's just the easiest way to score a point.

  Lloy Ball

  Way, Score

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• In my heart, I'm so far from done.

  Kerri Walsh

  Heart, Done, My Heart

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• Do you believe in miracles?

  Al Michaels

  Sports, Believe, Miracle

  Television broadcast of Olympic hockey game, 24 Feb. 1980

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• My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Team, Responsibility

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• The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

  George P. Shultz

  Softball, Sports, Adversity

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• Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

  Viacheslav Platonov

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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• That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

  Russ Rose

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

  Bruce Pearl

  Sports, Hard Work, Practice

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• Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

  Anson Dorrance

  Sports, Player, Keys

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• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Happiness, Success, Sports

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• For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.

  Viacheslav Platonov

  Giving Up, Team, Player

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• I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Basketball, Nba

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• Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Communication, Order, Together

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• Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Leader, Best Coaches, Should

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

  Lou Holtz

  Nfl, Action, Spectators

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Athlete, Thinking, Practice

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• If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

  Anson Dorrance

  Soccer, Self, Discipline

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• Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what it saw. There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a game

  Michael Lewis

  Eye, Games, People

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Eye, Thinking

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

  John Kessel

  Play Hard, Use, Teammate

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