Explore Quotes by Karch Kiraly

I can help promote the sport best by competing better, rather than playing poorly and losing out in the tournament early.

The United States has a superb cadre of coaches, some of the best minds of volleyball ever, and I aspire to join that group.

If I avoid injury, who knows how long I can go?

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make it.

I absorbed a lot from my dad. He's very disciplined, very productive, and uses his time well. Those are all things you want when you compete.

Strength is the ability to move really heavy objects. Power is the ability to move them faster and faster.

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

I never played on a court or in an actual game until I was 9.

I've heard every pronunciation ever, but the worst was when I was in New York for a radio show at some restaurant. On the door it said, 'Now appearing: Kard Kiard.'

When I started playing on the beach there was nothing, no prize money at all. I didn't expect there to be any, and I didn't even dream there would ever be money.

I want to accomplish some things on the beach that I haven't been able to before, such as being a part of the best team on the beach in any given summer, racking up the most wins in any given summer.

I guess I feel that competing well and signing all the autographs and just being available to the fans every weekend is the way I can best promote the sport.

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

I'm not at my physical peak, but if I can still beat guys, many of whom were born after I won my first tournament, that's a great accomplishment.

I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.

This country just has a different set of priorities. It's the same thing with soccer as with volleyball. If soccer is going to struggle to have a pro league after the most successful World Cup in history, it's even more of a struggle for other sports.

People think of beach volleyball as something you just play and have fun. They don't realize there's a lot of discipline involved in playing at this level.

In the past I was doing a lot of jump training and felt like that was sufficient for my lower body.

Part of the lore of the beach is how long some of those matches would last. Scores would hold and it was a battle of wits and endurance.

My buddies and I were just hooked on beach volleyball. We were obsessed with the game.

In college, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do as a career.