Quotes on Volleyball

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

I never want to lead a team that is not allowed the freedom to pursue what's in their hearts. If you want your team to be fully committed, then you'd better be fully committed

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.