Inspirational Volleyball Quotes

Just do it.
- Nike

Being a girl volleyball player means having stronger legs and a better vertical than most of the guys at your school.

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.
- Karch Kiraly

Volleyball is my life, everything else is just details.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
- Gale Sayers

I must give 100% in every practice, game, weight training, video or anything I do related to sports and life.
- Lloy Ball

I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.
- Kerri Walsh

Team guts always beats individual greatness.
- Bob Zuppke

Volleyball has allowed me to travel throughout the world, to see so many interesting places, to meet so many interesting people including my husband and three presidents, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
- Debbie Green

If volleyball was easy it would be called football.

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.
- Karch Kiraly

If we want to get to the top in Europe, we always have to give 120 percent – on the court and also off the court. From the first eye opening in the morning until the last eye closing in the evening we got to work hard for our goals.
- Mauro Berruto

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

Every girl’s volleyball team needs a water boy.

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: Invented by men, perfected by women.

Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor.
- John Kessel

Volleyball is 20 percent athleticness and 80 percent mental.

Positive expectations are important for your volleyball success because you tend to get what you expect

I'm the last person to tell someone that they'll never be successful in volleyball because that was all I ever heard for years, that I was too short.
- Debbie Green

I never went to a prom or to movies like other high school girls did. My entire life was volleyball. I’d play six days a week, with Monday the only day I’d take off.
- Debbie Green

In 1984, I competed in the Olympics, in a sport I was considered too short to play.
- Debbie Green

He would always tell me, Debbie, no one knows how good of a volleyball player you can become. I don't know, your coaches don't know, and even you don't know how good you can be.
- Debbie Green