If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.
Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.
Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.
There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.
Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.
It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.
False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.
A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.
Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.
Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.
I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.
Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.
As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.
I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.
There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
