Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kessel

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

John Kessel

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

John Kessel

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

Less effort in this game makes more results.

John Kessel

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

John Kessel

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

John Kessel

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

John Kessel

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

John Kessel

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

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

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

Julius Boros

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Joyce Brothers

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

Joyce Carol Oates

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Justin Bieber

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

Julianna Baggott

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

Juan Pablo Galavis

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

Karl Lagerfeld

Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.

Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Erving

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

Otto Rehhagel

We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Ouida

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

Kara Lindsay

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

Junior Johnson

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

Junior Seau

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

Paul Kariya

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Paul Krugman

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Paul Krugman

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Paul Coffey

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

Patrick Willis

I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.

Patrick Chan

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

Patrick Chan

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

John Piper

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.