Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rogers

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Michael Lewis

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

Maureen Dowd

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

John Wooden

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

Emo Philips

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

Emo Philips

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

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.

Karch Kiraly

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

It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either.

Karch Kiraly

Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.

Karch Kiraly

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

Karch Kiraly

It's a serve and pass game.

Karch Kiraly

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

Karch Kiraly

There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. —

Karch Kiraly

The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise.

Karch Kiraly

I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

Karch Kiraly

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

No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.

Karch Kiraly

We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.

Susan Cain

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

Teddy Sears

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

Ted Williams

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Misty May-Treanor

If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the right foods, it's not going to equal out. You're not going to get the results you want.

Misty May-Treanor

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Misty May-Treanor

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.

Misty May-Treanor

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

Misty May-Treanor

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

Misty May-Treanor

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

Misty May-Treanor

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.