Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Lopez

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Elizabeth Olsen

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

Bobby Knight

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

Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Billy Beane

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

Billie Jean King

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Clive Woodward

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...

Bear Bryant

There's no substitute for guts.

Danny Strong

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Anson Dorrance

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

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Joan Collins

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

David Halberstam

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

Gabrielle Reece

I want to play until the end.

Gabrielle Reece

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

Gabrielle Reece

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

Gabrielle Reece

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

Jose Mourinho

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

Jose Mourinho

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

Lou Holtz

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

Gisele Bundchen

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

Gigi Hadid

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.

Gigi Hadid

I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.

Gigi Hadid

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there .

Gigi Hadid

I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.

Greg Chappell

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

Jim Tressel

Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.

Mike Krzyzewski

There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

Mike Krzyzewski

When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

Mike Krzyzewski

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

Mike Krzyzewski

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

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