Quotes about Volleyball

If we can come in and play solid volleyball, we'll shut them down early and shut them up early.

Nate Meerstein

I think that her success came in large part because she understood volleyball quickly. She's got it in her to be a great coach.

Chris Lamb

We have people come who have never seen men's volleyball with the power and the speed of the ball and etc., etc.. Then here comes this little guy out there playing like a chicken with his head cut off diving for balls and flopping all around.

Arnie Ball

Lifting weights was important to us because we've been lifting since eighth grade. We both did track in high school and college, and volleyball.

Christina Roberts

The closeness of the fans should be advantageous for volleyball.

Mary Byrne

Stephanie is a great all-around player who will most likely play outside hitter for us. She has solid fundamental skills needed to play college volleyball, and has a good feel for the game. With experience under her belt, Stephanie will become quite a student of the game.

Jocelyn Price

They always play good volleyball and we have to really be prepared. I think we are the better team, I think we wanted it more, we stayed focused.

Lauri Hakala

It was a good match between two very good teams. That's volleyball. The momentum swings back and forth. When you've got two good teams that hate to lose . . . you're gonna fight like that.

Cari Martin

She is physically very strong, an extremely hard worker and is an aggressive, intelligent volleyball player.

Tom Stephenson

Intimidation? Oh, gosh, I cried every day, ... I almost walked out the first day. One girl said I shouldn't be there. I cried every day and other volleyball players made fun of me every day.

Alex Noble

We had an awesome team win tonight. It's so nice to see the girls play a clean game of volleyball. Our serving was awesome with a team total of 16 aces.

Jenny Lindsey

Volleyball can be a pretty simple game. I think serving and passing is a huge part of it. Tonight, we served well and got them out of system more than they're obviously used to. They're a good passing team. I think they were a little off tonight.

John Speraw

Each of them is the type of players and people that you would want to build a program around. Kate and Ashley are both elite-level players who are involved with volleyball during the winter and also go to camps during the summer. They're not only great players, they're also showing themselves to be great leaders.

Andy Daigle

We're doing things a different way than we might have done, ... Before, we would win most of the battles at the net, and now it's maybe a little more even. We're still a very good volleyball team.

Brendan Jones

That's why we set this whole thing up, to get our feeder schools playing volleyball. Any successful program has to work like a pyramid.

Bill Lang

For Michelle, it's an important spring. We will need a defensive specialist or two to step up and that could be her spot. She needs to continue to play volleyball on the side and get better. If she does that, she'll be fine.

Jon Wallace

This is what happens when we play Warrior volleyball. We were well-focused, well-prepared, and we played excellent.

Lauri Hakala

We thought he could have been a pretty good Division I volleyball player. He could have been an All-American. But he decided to go to HPU and play basketball, and he was a good basketball player. It was economics. You can get a full ride at HPU and Hilo, but only a partial scholarship here.

Tino Reyes

Volleyball is just my for-fun sport.

Adam Foard

Between now and June 30, we still have the potential revenue in the sports of baseball, men's volleyball and men's basketball. We'll be pretty close to what's in the five-year plan for this particular year. We should be either zero or plus.

Herman Frazier

Were it not for that, we could not outfit this volleyball team.

Tom Hilbert

Currently programs are getting 1½ hours to practice at West, which will not include inside space for girls soccer. Practices will finish around 10 p.m. We will be moving all volleyball games and badminton matches to the West Campus.

Chris Olson

Erin is coming around every day. She has made strong strides from Day 1. She stepped in late from volleyball, so she was really, really rusty, but you know that she has the talent. Right away, she stepped up and hit that big shot from the corner.

Tony Giese

They're a good team, I think we have gotten better, we're improving. We're not playing perfect volleyball but we're making strides to where we want to be.

Alfred Reft

She has shown the energy and enthusiasm to build this program. She has been associated with successful programs both on the court and in the classroom. We're eager for her to get started and look for similar success from our volleyball program.

Jim Abbott

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Mirek Porosa

We've had the injury bug over our last four matches. Before that we were playing great volleyball. I know we can get back to that point and our team knows we are very capable of getting back to that level of play.

Mike Welch

That's the best high-school dunk I've ever seen. He dunked it on that kid from the volleyball line. We watched it about five or six times on the bus ride home. It was awesome.

Kory Peppenhorst

The junior varsity will really have to raise its game as the next three matches are against traditional volleyball powerhouses North Platte, Ogallala and Scottsbluff.

George Briggs

Now I think I'm more of an athlete than a dancer. I feel there are more opportunities for me in volleyball than in dancing.

Whitney Dosty

She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up.

Jody Brown

This is a very big accomplishment. It's going to be an invaluable experience for her to play with top athletes from across the country. Playing high-level volleyball like this will keep her on track for the goals she has set for herself both collegially and nationally.

Beth Launiere

It was good for her. She's a mom and (volleyball) just added 13 extra girls to our family.

Lindsy Evans

We played very dumb volleyball today. We just didn't have it. We didn't pass well and we made it very easy on them, but that's why they are the No. 2 team in the county.

Steve Mclaughlin

I don't know if I'll be able to play college volleyball or not, but it's something I'd love to do. Right now I'm just trying to work my butt off and get better.

Courtney Young

She's played club volleyball and softball. She's our defensive specialist. She's very consistent on the back row. She reads well and is very, very quick. She has a very strong jump serve.

Lora Pate

I don't like rally scoring. If you're going to play the tipping game, with rally scoring, you're going to stay even and keep the momentum on both sides. And that's what we were doing. We weren't playing our power volleyball.

Bruce Udvari

The offense is starting to click, and we're putting together better runs. We're starting to play good volleyball and our blocks and defense have improved.

Mark Pavlik

They were significant. We had a nice look at the end of the third and they got the rebound and (Johnston) made a volleyball-line 3.

Steve Keller

This is an incredible opportunity for Rachel to explore another aspect of volleyball. She has natural size which is such a benefit. I have no doubt that if Rachel decides to make this a priority, she could be successful in the beach game.

Janice Kruger

I actually went that morning and got to speak on behalf of volleyball coaches. It opened up discussion, and finally, as coaches, we got to get our point across to these guys, the administrators.

Bill Lang

A lot of [my players] are in club programs. They are volleyball hounds. If they aren't practicing, they are out playing on sand courts. Sometimes they call each other on weekends and drive all the way out to the beach to play.

Allan Rubenstein

Nationals are so much fun because it's the best of the best, ... You can watch really good volleyball, play really good volleyball and be a part of it. It's really exciting to be around that many people that enjoy the sport so much.

Shannon Davis

With the exception of one of our recent losses, we've been playing some solid volleyball. Hopefully, we'll keep this going.

Chris Curry

She's gone from not being able to lift the bar, a skinny body that wasn't very strong, ... to now starting to look like a big time college volleyball player - an international level athlete. Hopefully she's going to see great results on the court.

John Cook

The nice thing about volleyball as a sport is that in basketball and other sports, when a match is over someone always is upset with an official and it seems like volleyball is the other way, and especially the way Kelly presents her self. Even losing teams felt they were always given a fair match.

Mark Jackley

Football is a collision sport, basketball is a precision sport and volleyball is an emotional sport. You've got to get the emotion. Once you get that and the momentum behind you, there's a lot you can do.

Mark Royer

They are a very good team. Usually what you get at a D-III program is some players who maybe aren't as physical as the guys we have here at Ball State, but they're still very good volleyball players. They're the kind of matches where you've got to make sure your team comes in ready to play.

Joel Walton

One of my goals to make the national team and represent my country, and work with the best and be one of the best players. I want to try and compete with the best in the world in volleyball.

Sean Pedersen

She has a nose for the ball and an amazing volleyball IQ. She will need to work hard in the preseason, but we expect for her to be among the group of freshmen to make an immediate impact.

Mike Sweitzer

You're cold and hungry and you want to go home. I like snow, but ... I was thinking it would be nice to play volleyball where it was warm.

Lauri Hakala

My mom and I always say volleyball is my comfort zone. I've always loved volleyball ever since I was a kid. I love everything about it.

Blaire Hiler

I learned a lot about hitting and blocking in club volleyball. I learned the basics, like footwork and rules, in high school, and we ran a lot more plays and faced better competition in club. Playing club boosted my confidence. I'm not as afraid to make mistakes anymore because I realize that everyone makes a mistake every now and then.

Tyler Conway

She has that setter's mentality from volleyball. She likes to set people up to make sure they do their best. And we've really been trying to press her with her offense too because she really does have a good offensive game as well. She is so quick off the dribble. Bringing the ball down the court, she just speeds past people, and she hardly looks like she's moving.

Tara Savolt

I had never thought about playing volleyball until my freshman year, ... But Small stopped me in the hallway. 'Come play volleyball for us.' Tryouts were the next day.

Alex Noble

We didn't have a scholarship for Tamari. She's a good volleyball player. I don't know what our plans for her would have been. We would have evaluated her if she had been here.

Dave Shoji

That looked like volleyball. It's exciting when everyone executes what you've coached them in practice.

Mary Thomason

He?s definitely our go-to guy. He?s fairly athletic, and he?s got a powerful volleyball arm swing.

Jon Hastings

The thing about volleyball is if you don't have others on the court, you can't win. We don't have the same offensive power we have had, but we have equal -- if not better -- defense and ball control. You can't throw a game like volleyball on the shoulders of one person.

Corey Romanak

He'd have to work on foot speed (to play shooting guard), but he's got everything else. He really can do just about anything. When he leaves the floor, everybody is going to get out of their seats, because he's got great volleyball instincts. He has the ability to explode off the floor and he does it so gracefully. A lot of that has to do with timing he learned in volleyball.

Justin Young

We truly have a core of tremendous athletes in the three seniors. The challenge for me is to continually push those players, and push the players who have never played organized volleyball and get them to that level in a short amount of time.

Amy Van Eekeren

This is what I remember volleyball being. This is what night games were like. It's important for the guys from both schools to experience this. When you get to the State finals, that's what it's like. Until you play in that, you don't know how your team is going to react.

Mariaelena Bellinger

It was a total domination. We outplayed them with every volleyball skill and the results speak for themselves.

Mirek Porosa

It's going to take some time for us to begin really working together. We realize early in the season we're not going to be playing our best volleyball. But doing the basic stuff right now is good for us. It'll get better.

Ray Yamauchi

Eastern Kentucky was a suitcase college. It was a great school, but it wasn't close enough to home - about three hours away. We traveled a lot with the volleyball team, and that was nice. But in the fall and spring, the college was deserted on weekends. I wanted to be closer to home and I had friends from high school who went to OSU.

Gayle Mahaffey

(Collegiate volleyball) is going to be a lot more competitive. I'm looking forward to the experience.

Halee Hamilton

I haven't played volleyball in over a year. I miss it but I think it helps. It's better than cross country.

Rachel Ferdinand

I think these situations are going to help us for the future. Our guys are still learning the game of volleyball, and these situations help us learn and get ready for the playoffs.

Lawrence Hom

She was very raw as a volleyball player. She's an athlete, and she can do whatever she wants. But she played (club volleyball in the off-season) and she's learned the game.

Terri Risch

Spandex, ... We're gonna look like volleyball players.

Gary Powers

I have always enjoyed the hospitality of the University of Hawaii and the men's volleyball program. Playing in front of 3-4 thousand fans will be a great experience for my players.

Kevin Ring

I kind of took it easy all day just so I could get in the car to come over and do that. You know, Larry and I both really love volleyball and we really like the kids we working with. It was a huge disappointment that I wouldn't be able to participate in that.

Bob Rogers

If there is a basketball, volleyball, football or soccer game, he also volunteers at those events and stays until 10:30 at night when the event is over. We have come to rely on him because he is always here. In spite of being injured in a car accident as a young man, he chooses to work to the best of his ability each day and contributes a huge amount of his time to the residents of Hawthorne.

Vicki Tyson

They're a solid team and have played some good volleyball. Obviously Ball State got us earlier in the year, but if we come out with a win, I'll feel a lot better going into the playoffs.

Nate Meerstein

We just know that we'll have to play some high level volleyball this weekend. We really just have to focus on our game, on our side and on staying focused for the whole match.

Melissa Elmer

It is a good core of players coming back. The thing I like about them is they've all come in in really good physical condition and they played some volleyball over the summer. We're a little bit ahead of where we were at this time last year.

Vicki Carle

For a volleyball player, that's pretty good.

Jody Brown

The varsity kids dedication is beyond explanation. I think that everyone played club volleyball, and they chose to do it on their own. It costs money and time to do that.

Tony Phelps

We've worked hard the last couple weeks. We probably did more training than practicing volleyball. We need to be in shape since we don't have the size.... Being aggressive leads to more points.

Kevin Freeman

They are a big physical team that serves well and plays very disciplined volleyball. We'll need to have our 'A' game to be successful. I think we can match up with them physically, it will just be a matter of whether we execute at a high level.

Mike Brandon

Without a doubt we played the best volleyball of our whole season in game one and for most of game two. And just to be playing at that level in the most important match of the season, you can't ask for anything more.

Peter Eichler

I guess I have good genes. Ad my youngest sister (fourth-grader Anne) plays a little bit of everything -- soccer, basketball, swimming volleyball. She's probably going to be better than all of us.

Cory Thomasson

I wouldn't say that we played our best volleyball. What's neat is we figured out a way to compete and get it in.

Mike Wilton

I saw the potential immediately, that she could quite possibly be the best volleyball player to come out of Bradford.

Shari Bishop

We got to see a different style of volleyball.

Kate Mccullagh

The whole family is involved in sports. Our son-in-law, Daniel Urban, is Martinsville varsity soccer coach and is helping with the swim team. Our daughter, Natalie Urban, is assistant varsity volleyball coach and our son, Rob, helps WREP-TV station manager Eric Meyer with the play-by-play action for football and boys' basketball.

Theresa Rhoden

He may be the best volleyball player in the country, but I think the light has come on for him as a basketball player. There's a lot to be said about that. Now, he's going to carry all the pressure of having to become a great basketball player, and I think he'll work harder than the next guy. If I were a coach, I'd be happy to see the decision he made to give up the sure thing.

Dave Telep

They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.

Emily Hawthorne

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Elaine Youngs