Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Danny Strong

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Greg Chappell

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

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

Emo Philips

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

Emo Philips

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

John Wooden

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

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.

Misty May-Treanor

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

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.

Susan Cain

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

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