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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt. -- Gail Parent
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball. -- Summer Altice
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. -- Newt Gingrich
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl. -- Gabrielle Reece
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball. -- Marv Dunphy
Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor. -- Sean William Scott
You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it. -- Marc Wilmots
Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. -- Liam Hemsworth
I never did. I only prepared to win the next day. -- Karch Kiraly
My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian. -- Gisele Bundchen
Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport. -- Elena Delle Donne
Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off. -- Karch Kiraly
A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts. -- Misty May-Treanor
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling. -- Gabrielle Reece
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control. -- Wess Roberts
I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. -- Misty May-Treanor
Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it. -- LeBron James
I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition. -- Theophilus London
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -- Vince Lombardi
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -- Eric Hoffer
We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal. -- Kerri Walsh
Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age. -- Karch Kiraly
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. -- Mia Hamm
We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years. -- Kerri Walsh
It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills. -- Misty May-Treanor
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch. -- Holly McPeak
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. -- Hugh McCutcheon
The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game. -- Karch Kiraly
The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise. -- Karch Kiraly
Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do. -- Liam Hemsworth
Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand. -- John Kessel
Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom. -- Karch Kiraly
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I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. -- Summer Altice
I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can. -- Gisele Bundchen
I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids. -- Kerri Walsh
I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years. -- Summer Altice
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart. -- Vivica A. Fox
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality. -- Gabrielle Reece
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. -- Novak Djokovic
I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete. -- Ginger Rogers
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time. -- Marisa Miller
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do. -- Diana Lopez
I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing. -- Aimee Mullins
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. -- Summer Altice
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim. -- Shilpa Shetty
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house. -- Vivica A. Fox
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. -- Zosia Mamet
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. -- Maureen Dowd
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. -- Joan Collins
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. -- Emo Philips
Ambiguity â?? the Devil's volleyball. -- Emo Philips
Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players. -- John Kessel
Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard. -- John Kessel
The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters. -- Jay Mohr
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way. -- John Kessel
In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse. -- John Kessel
You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves. -- Ursula Burns
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time. -- Danny Strong
I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track. -- Sarah Shahi
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks. -- Viacheslav Platonov
I play volleyball on the beach. It's a great way to work out and have fun. -- Jessica Sanchez
There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't. -- John Kessel
If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel. -- John Kessel
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves. -- Ursula Burns
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time. -- John Kessel
Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner. -- Stephan James
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice. -- John Kessel
I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast. -- Stephan James
I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends. -- Teddy Sears
The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question. -- John Kessel
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching. -- John Kessel
I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home. -- Gigi Hadid
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. -- V. E. Schwab
Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day. -- Bethany Hamilton
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. -- Jasmine Tookes
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. -- John Kessel
We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far. -- April Ross
That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics. -- Kerri Walsh
I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die. -- Gigi Hadid
Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby. -- Jessica Williams
After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can. -- Bob Hope
...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau. -- Don Feder
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply." -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
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'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent. -- Samantha Power
I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time. -- Marisa Miller
Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that? -- Mike Dodd
When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.' -- Roy Campanella
I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic. -- Prince Fielder

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