Volleyball Quotes - Page 8

• In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

  Giovanni Guidetti

  Reading, Player, Thinking

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• You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

  Jose Mourinho

  Hard Work, People, Wells

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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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• It's a serve and pass game.

  Karch Kiraly

  Games

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• In my heart, I'm so far from done.

  Kerri Walsh

  Heart, Done, My Heart

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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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• You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

  Ursula Burns

  Games, Guilt

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• I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sleep, Kids, Breathe

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• Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

  Summer Altice

  College, Fire, Play

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

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• On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him. The warning signal flashed bright red in Kane's head. Telling a woman she was as big as a beach ball wouldn't win any points. How did one describe how she looked? A basketball? Volleyball? He studied her furious little face. Yeah. He was in big trouble no matter what he said. Description was out of the question. He needed diplomacy, something that flew out of the window when he was near her and she said the words like contractions.

  Christine Feehan

  Basketball, Beach, Winning

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• There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

  Susan Cain

  Zero, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The Power of Introverts". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Mean, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Important

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Motivational Sports

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• I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

  Harvey Penick

  Sports, Play, Competition

  Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake (2015). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Use, Enough

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

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• I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives, the adrenaline can't help but take over. I love the sense of accomplishment and camaraderie that the indoor game can engender.

  Karch Kiraly

  Games, Long, Accomplishment

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• It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.

  Karch Kiraly

  Beach, Careers, Giving

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• The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

  Bobby Knight

  Practice, Reason, Structure

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• I never want to lead a team that is not allowed the freedom to pursue what's in their hearts. If you want your team to be fully committed, then you'd better be fully committed

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Heart, Want

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• The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Essence, Practice

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• My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

  John Wooden

  Practice, Assistants, Planning

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• We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

  Pat Summitt

  Girl, Winning, Championship

  Pat Summitt (2012). “Raise the Roof”, p.15, Three Rivers Press

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• If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

  Pat Summitt

  Caring, Tough, Wanted

  Pat Summitt (2012). “Raise the Roof”, p.20, Three Rivers Press

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• I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Ideas, Challenges

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