In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.
Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.
As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything.
She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.
Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.
My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.