Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

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

Nicholas Sparks

Ronnie:" I guess I'm okay with that.But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here. Will:" I figured." Ronnie" And not a lot of beach volleyball,either. Especially in January." Will" I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices." Ronnie."Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy Your time.

Nicholas Sparks

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

Nicholas Sparks

I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

Michael Jordan

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

Kerri Walsh

People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.

Kerri Walsh

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.

Kerri Walsh

Well there's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. But offseason is really important because generally I'm staying off the sand and getting my feet under me, and it's really important for my body to know what it feels like to have sound footing under me.

Kerri Walsh

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

Kerri Walsh

I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.

Kerri Walsh

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

Kerri Walsh

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

Kerri Walsh

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

Kerri Walsh

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.

Kerri Walsh

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.

Kerri Walsh

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

Kerri Walsh

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

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.

John Wooden

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

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.

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

Emo Philips

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

Emo Philips

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Stefan Edberg

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Sparky Anderson

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Tupac Shakur

There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

Will Rogers

We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

Sean William Scott

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

Liam Hemsworth

Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.

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."

Susan Cain

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

Samantha Power

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.