Volleyball Quotes - Page 9

• In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Errors, Excuse

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• I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

  Tom Osborne

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

  Vince Lombardi

  Jobs, Pay, Mental Toughness

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

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• Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

  Pele

  Basketball, Soccer, Stars

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• When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

  Tom Landry

  Success, Sports, Football

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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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• Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teamwork, Communication, Ends

  Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Practice is the battle you must win.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Winning, Practice, Battle

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• Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

  Karch Kiraly

  Player, Giving, Formulas

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• Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

  Ettore Messina

  Giving Up, People, Principles

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• In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

  Viacheslav Platonov

  Teaching, Technique, Tasks

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• You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Ambition, Commitment

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• I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

  Russ Rose

  Trying, Bars, Want

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• I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

  Teddy Sears

  Beach, Weekend, Surfer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Beach, London Olympics

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