Quotes About Dedication

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.

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

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

I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you'd think I was an NBA player. I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.

I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In many parts of this country, there is still a stigma about volleyball, that it is a sissy game, the one to go out for if you can't win a letter in anything else. People don't realize what a difference there is between the picnic game and the top level.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Going into a game, I know that I'm going to run a lot. I know I'm going to have a lot of volume, and I know that I'm going to get hit a lot, which is great. Sometimes we try to deliver some blows, too, try to break as many tackles as possible. We know it's going to hurt the next day. That's why we love the game.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the volume at which you're producing this medium is incredible.

When I was doing 'Formula Volume 1,' I had so many ideas that I knew one album was not going to be enough.

There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.

LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.

To be in a situation where you have another year on your deal and the team still wants to extend that - they see your value, they want you in the building, and they want to build around you - that speaks volumes. That's very, very important to a player like me.

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for a long time. That speaks volumes for them.

It feels good to just play in the All-Star Game. To be the first un-drafted player to start, I think it speaks volumes for those guys trying to make to the league that there are always opportunities if you just stay prepared.