Great Volleyball Quotes

1. “I Teach them Correct Principles and they Govern Themselves.” -Joseph Smith
2. “What I Do Depends on How I Feel About What I Know” -Hyrum Smith
3. “Better the Ball” -Coach Joann Reeve, Ricks College/BYU-Idaho
4. “In the Final Analysis, the Ball Only Knows One Thing: The Angle of the Forearm it Contacts.” -Carl McGowan, BYU
5. “In Volleyball Offense, it’s KILL or BE KILLED.” -Coach Joann Reeve, Ricks College/BYU-Idaho
6. “When the Time for Action is Come, the Time to Prepare is Over.” -Thomas Monson
7. “Out of Small and Simple Things Proceedeth That which is Great.” -Alma
8. “It’s Not Important who Starts the Game, but Who Finishes it.” -John Wooden, UCLA
9. “If Winning Isn’t Everything, Why Do They Keep Score?” -Vince Lombardi
10. “Success is Where Preparation and Opportunity Meet.” -Bobby Unser
11. “As Your Beliefs About Limits Change, the Limits themselves Change.” -Terry Orlick
12. “You Can Motivate by Fear, and You Can Motivate by Reward. But Both are only Temporary. The Only Lasting thing is Self Motivation.” –Homer Rice
13. “It’s a Very Bad Thing to Become Accustomed to Good Luck.” –Publilius Syrus
14. “The 6 W’s: Work Will Win When Wishing Doesn’t.” –Todd Blackledge
15. “Good Guys are a Dime a Dozen, but an Aggressive leader is Priceless.” –Red Blaik
16. “Success is about Having, Excellence is about Being. Success is about Having Money and Fame, but Excellence is Being the Best you can Be.” –Mike Ditka
17. “It ‘Aint what you Eat but how you Chew it.” –Delbert McClinton
18. “The Difference between Failure and Success is doing a thing Nearly Right and doing it Exactly Right.” –Edward C. Simmons
19. “The Harder you Work, the Harder it is to Surrender.”
20. “You Can’t Make a Great Play unless you do it First in Practice.” –Chuck Noll
21. “Things that Hurt, Instruct.” –Benjamin Franklin
22. “It isn’t Hard to be Good from Time to Time in Sports. What is Tough, is Being Good Every Day.” –Willie Mays
23. “He Who Falls in Love with Himself will have No Rivals.” –Anonymous
24. “When You Get to the End of Your Rope, Tie A Knot and Hold On.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
25. “Difficulties in Life are Intended to make us Better, Not Bitter.” –Dan Reeves
26. “I Could Have been a Rhodes Scholar, Except for My Grades.” –Duffy Daugherty
27. “Sometimes it is More Important to Discover what one Cannot Do than what one Can.” –Lin Yutang
28. “Courage is Resistance to Fear, Mastery of Fear, Not Absence of Fear.” –Anonymous
29. “I’d Run Over My Mother to Win the Super Bowl.” –Russ Grimm
30. “I Don’t Have Any Tricky Plays, I’d Rather Have Tricky Players.” –Abe Lemons
31. “You are Never Really Playing an Opponent. You are Playing Yourself, Your Own Highest Standards, and When You Reach Your Limits, That is Real Joy.” –Arthur Ashe
32. “Victory Belongs to the Most Persevering.” –Napolean
33. “Every Game is an Opportunity to Measure Yourself against your Own Potential.” –Bud Wilkinson
34. “Everyone I Meet is in Some Way My Superior.” –William Shakespeare
35. “I have seen that in Any Great Undertaking, it is Not Enough for a Man to Depend Simply Upon Himself.” –Lone Man
36. “One Finger Cannot Lift a Pebble.” –Hopi Saying
37. “Team Guts Always Beat Individual Greatness.” –Bob Zuppke
38. “One Man Can be a Crucial Ingredient on a Team, but One Man Cannot Make a Team.” –Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
39. “This is the Second Most Exciting Indoor Sport in the World, and the Other One Shouldn’t Have Spectators.” –Dick Vertleib
40. “Be Strong in Body, Clean in Mind, and Lofty in Ideals.” –James Naismith
41. “Sometimes a Players Greatest Challenge is coming to Grips with His Role on the Team.” –Scottie Pippen
42. “The Pitcher has got only a Ball. I’ve got a Bat. So the Percentage of Weapons is in My Favor and I let the Fellow with the Ball do the Fretting.” –Hank Aaron
43. “Never Quit. It is the Easiest Cop-out in the World. Set a Goal and don’t Quit until you Attain it. When you do Attain it, Set Another Goal, and don’t Quit until you Reach it. Never Quit.” –Bear Bryant
44. “There’s No Substitute for Guts.” –Bear Bryant
45. “Show Class, Have Pride and Display Character. If you do, Winning takes care of Itself.” –Bear Bryant
46. “He Can’t Run, He Can’t Pass, and He Can’t Kick- All He Can Do is Beat You.” –Bear Bryant (Speaking of QB Pat Trammel)
47. “When You make a Mistake, Admit it: Learn from it and Don’t Repeat it.” –Bear Bryant
48. “You Have to be Willing to Out-Condition Your Opponents.” –Bear Bryant
49. “In Life You’ll have our Back Up Against the Wall Many Times. You Might As Well Get Used to It.” –Bear Bryant
50. “You Never Know How a Horse Will Pull Until You Hook Him to a Heavy Load.” –Bear Bryant
51. “The First ime you Quit it’s Hard. The Second Time, it Gets Easier. The Third Time You Don’t Even Have to Think About it.” –Bear Bryant
52. “I don’t care how much Talent a Team has- If the Boys don’t Think Tough, Practice Tough, and Live Tough, How Can They Play Together [In a Game]?” –Bear Bryant
53. “A School Without [Volleyball] is in Danger of Deteriorating into a Medieval Study Hall.” –Bear Bryant
54. “Confidence is Contagious, So is Lack of Confidence.” –Bear Bryant
55. “Individual Commitment to a Group Effort- That is What Makes a Team Work, a Company Work, a Society Work, a Civilization Work.” –Bear Bryant
56. “But I Firmly Believe that Any Man’s Finest Hour, His Greatest Fulfillment of All He Holds Dear, is the Moment when He Has Worked His Heart Out in a Good Cause and Lies Exhausted on Field of Battle- Victorious.” –Bear Bryant
57. “It’s Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, It’s Whether You Get Up.” –Bear Bryant
58. “Life’s Battles Don’t Always Go to the Stronger or Faster Man. But Sooner or Later the Man Who Wins is the Man who Thinks He Can.” –Bear Bryant
59. “Things Turn Out Best for those who Make the Best of the way Things Turn Out.” –John Wooden
60. Don’t Measure Yourself by what you Have Accomplished, but by what you Should Have Accomplished with Your Ability.” –John Wooden
61. “Condition Comes from Hard Work During Practice and Proper Mental and Moral Conduct Between Practices.” –John Wooden
62. “Be more Concerned with your Character than your Reputation, because Your Character is what You Really are, while Your Reputation is merely what Others Think You Are.” –John Wooden
63. “Consider the Rights of Others Before your Own Feelings, and the Feelings of Others Before Your Own Rights.” –John Wooden
64. “It’s what you Learn After You Know it All that Counts.” –John Wooden