Quotes About Volleyball

You can't really win without serving and passing, you got to hit the ball in the court.

My first sport was volleyball, and then somebody told me about cross-country. They said it was outdoors, coed, and everybody got to participate. And I said, 'That is the sport for me!'

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

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.

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 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.

There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.

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

My parents have been volleyball players, and my dad is an Arjuna awardee in volleyball.

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

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.

I have been playing beach volleyball since I was 10. I'm very passionate about this game and every summer I have been practising with my friend.

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

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

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.

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

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!

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 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.

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.

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

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

All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.

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.