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Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.
I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.
I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.
I grew up on the beach, so I'm really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.
Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals
It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.
I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.
Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.
When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.
I played everything. I played volleyball, did track, cross-country, but basketball was my main sport, my main focus.
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
I'd like to thank everyone who has given me the opportunity to play with the best beach volleyball players in the world.
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.
Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.
The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.
There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
The original way to play beach volleyball was in a bikini and board shorts, and I don't know what else they want us to wear.
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline