Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
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.
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.
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.
When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.
The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.
Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
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.
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.