Volleyball Quotes and Sayings
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Inspirational and Motivational Quotes to Strengthen Your Mind

It is common sense that athletes and teams who succeed are usually those who have practiced well and prepared the best; they have created pre competition routines and game plans to be able to execute those in competition.

Very important and often overlooked factor in sports success is positive and valuable self-belief of an athlete and power of athlete’s mind in achieving goals. An essential part of modern preparation is to inspire you and train your mind to be confident.

Purpose of these volleyball quotes and volleyball sayings is to help players and coaches

• recognize and utilize their mind power



• find inspiration and motivate themselves



• learn common characteristics of successful people and achieve a winner’s mind.

Our Favourite Inspirational Quote for Volleyball

Volleyball Advisors’ all time favourite sports citation is from one of the greatest athletes ever lived. It a very intelligent illustration and emphasizes the importance of self belief in athlete’s quest to be the best.

“To be a great champion you must first believe you are the best.
If you're not, pretend you are."
--Muhammad Ali, boxing--

More Volleyball Sayings about Belief and Confidence

Other Volleyball Sayings and Quotes sections

The reference from “the Greatest” is a good example of our quotes and sayings collection you will find under other sections:

• Kerri Walsh and Misty May Quotes

  Misty May quote after an Olympic victory:
  "A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts."
  

• Motivational Quotes

"Extra discipline makes up for a lack of talent and a lack of discipline quickly siphons away extra talent, that's why it's frequently the most disciplined rather than the most gifted rise to the top."
- Unknown



• Winning Quotes
  
  Karch Kiraly, when asked how he prepared to win Olympic gold: “I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.”
  
  

• More Karch Kiraly Quotes




• Volleyball Sayings - Positive Quotes to Inspire You
  
  “My potential is great - I compete with the confidence of the champion… point after point…. game after game."
  - Unknown

Our Volleyball Sayings and Quotes Sections

We focus to collect quotes related to “success”, “winning”, “losing”, “champions”, “motivational”, “inspirational”, “self-belief” themes because we strongly believe in mental training and self development through positive messages.

How Coaches and Players Use Volleyball Quotes and Volleyball Sayings in Training?

Coaches can use volleyball quotes and volleyball sayings to emphasize certain theme players need to focus on. Some examples:

• When a team is struggling with their blocking and digging up balls, the coach can name “defense wins games” for practice theme for the week. The coach uses this particular theme in pre-game or practice meetings and brings it up as much as possible. The coach builds his practices around the theme to make sure players will focus on improving team’s defense.



• It is very common among successful coaches to use themes in various context to guide the training.
  
  For example they often select a theme for the whole season, for example “from runner up to winner” to remind players which is the goal of the season.



• Coaches use volleyball quotes and volleyball sayings in pre practice meetings or huddles to inspire and motivate players for practice.
  
  For example players think and go through the meaning of team work quote together and one after another express the meaning of it. Often those quotes can be applied to real life outside volleyball which is an important aspect of coaching, especially when teaching and educating younger junior volleyball players.



• One important aspect of coaching is to teach volleyball tactics and strategies along with the skill development. This can be started at early level, when remembering to keep it simple. An efficient way to teach game tactics to junior volleyball players is to apply clear and understandable volleyball slogans, which the coach uses over and over again.


For example for a beginning setter coach can emphasize three things, “against one blocker", "set to longer distance" and "find your hot hitter". In practice the coach repeatedly explains to a setter “against one blocker” stands for trying to set the ball to a hitter who has only one blocker against her. Set to longer distance stands for a purpose of trying to set the ball from the right side to longer distance to the left side, or the other way around.


• When the coach uses that particular volleyball saying often enough in practice, a young player starts picking up the tactics fairly quick. Using short volleyball slogans will also benefit the coach in matches, in which it is reasonable to give short and simple information to players. Players can use the same idea of short slogans when communicating during the match.

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