Less effort in this game makes more results.
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.
Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.
There are three choices in life and sport – either you do it, you don’t do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.
False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
Ethics is for people with full bellies.
The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can’t handle; whether you do handle it is another question.
No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.
Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.
An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.
Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.
Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.
Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.
Don’t ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.
The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the ‘coach.’
There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.
Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.
But that was the nature of love: one did not offer it with any assurance that it would change the world, even if in the end it was the only thing that could.