Top 70 Volleyball Quotes

I’ve always loved being active, and I used to do sports – basketball, soccer, volleyball – growing up.

I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.

Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn’t my sport.

I’m not going to play volleyball until the retirement age.

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5’9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

I played volleyball in college. I was the girl next door, never wanted to be in the limelight.

I played everything. I played volleyball, did track, cross-country, but basketball was my main sport, my main focus.

I played volleyball and basketball and would also take part in dramatics.

I grew up on the beach, so I’m really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

I didn’t want to just be an analyst for women’s basketball and volleyball. I didn’t just want to be a sideline reporter. I didn’t just want to be a host. I wanted to be someone that my producers or coordinating producers could call on me for any event, any subject matter or any role.

Here I am, 11 years old, and these grown men have to give it everything they have to beat me. In one part of my life, I was standing toe-to-toe with grown men. It was a great feeling. My dad gave me that gift and volleyball gave me that gift.

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.

For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you’re close to something like that. It’s really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.

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.

You name the sport, I’ve played it. I was quarterback for a football team one year, played volleyball, played softball – you name it.

Any outdoor sport like volleyball can also be played as a workout.

Sometimes when you’re constantly playing volleyball there is no time to decompress mentally and physically.

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.

I converted from softball. We’ve got volleyball, we’ve got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

Besides being a national level basketball champion, I have played a lot of other sports like volleyball, badminton, kho-kho, and kabbadi.

My buddies and I were just hooked on beach volleyball. We were obsessed with the game.

I’m a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

I usually play volleyball three times a week.

My mom was a volleyball player, and my dad was a soccer player. I never thought about it, but they always served healthy food at home, and I love it, and it kind of was a regular part of my day.

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.

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.

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!

A gold medal is a goal and something that we’ve never done before as the United States indoor women’s volleyball team.

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart.

I wasn’t banned from skiing but didn’t go much in college because I couldn’t afford it, and there just wasn’t the time. I played football all winter, then in summer I did track and field and played volleyball.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts – it’s like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don’t like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.

It’s hard to grow up to be a good man and a good husband and a good father and at least at some level, my dad gave me a great gift to be able to grow up in the volleyball context and know that I was on a good path.

Basketball is not my favorite, but I enjoy playing it and it’s helped my volleyball.

I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it.

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.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

When three-quarters of the tournaments were being held in parking lots and other artificial locations, that was a growing frustration for me as someone who grew up playing beach volleyball and idolizing the guys who came before me and knowing the history of the sport.

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.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton – two sports every season – and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

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.

Everyone who’s great – play any sport, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, don’t matter, everyone’s failed. Everyone’s gonna fail. It’s how you bounce back.

When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I kept missing it for musical theater.

I only box. It’s the only thing that keeps me sane. I can’t just go to the gym and run. I’d rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.

In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it’s so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.

I’d like to thank everyone who has given me the opportunity to play with the best beach volleyball players in the world.

I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women’s Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They’re all vintage but in new condition.

Flo Hyman became America’s best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.

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.

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

Just a little bit less volleyball for me I think is a huge benefit for me.

When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don’t you come up with another name?

People think of beach volleyball as something you just play and have fun. They don’t realize there’s a lot of discipline involved in playing at this level.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality.

I’m the only person who can talk volleyball all the time.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

I certainly think it’s ironic that beach volleyball was first played in the 1930s in Santa Monica and tournaments of a high caliber have been happening in this country since the 1940s, and the FIVB, for many years, has ignored beach volleyball.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

The men’s game probably has a little more power to it, so the rallies aren’t quite as long. Some people prefer that power and other people prefer the somewhat-longer rallies that tend to happen in women’s volleyball.

Japan is one of my favorite places to play. Not just because they love volleyball, but the people are so nice and they’re so clean and organized.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason – I burned inside to play volleyball.

When it comes to beach volleyball, we’re playing in 100-degree-plus weather.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

I’m a volleyball player, so I like Lycra and Spandex.

Hydration is really important, particularly as a beach volleyball player.

When I was a kid, I did many sports. Judo, like my dad, but also volleyball, handball, and gymnastics. We never played much football.

There will always be people who think volleyball, at least for boys anyway, is a sport you play when you can’t letter in anything else.