Top 55 Volleyball Quotes

From the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s, that was the golden age of the beach volleyball mystique. I was absolutely mesmerized by the best players of that time.

I converted from softball. We’ve got volleyball, we’ve got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

My mom was a volleyball player, and my dad was a soccer player. I never thought about it, but they always served healthy food at home, and I love it, and it kind of was a regular part of my day.

I played a lot of sports growing up – soccer, softball, basketball, track – and started playing on a club team when I was 12. That’s when I fell in love with volleyball.

I come from the University of Nebraska where volleyball is very well-known.

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I’m up at 5 A.M. every day.

Here I am, 11 years old, and these grown men have to give it everything they have to beat me. In one part of my life, I was standing toe-to-toe with grown men. It was a great feeling. My dad gave me that gift and volleyball gave me that gift.

Being 5′ 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I’d just hit the crap out of the ball.

Any outdoor sport like volleyball can also be played as a workout.

I’m a volleyball player, so I like Lycra and Spandex.

Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason – I burned inside to play volleyball.

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.

I love beach volleyball.

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

I was discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess when I was actually, like, two years old. And so I started with Baby Guess; I did Guess Kids, and then I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player. I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling.

Maybe water polo and volleyball really help me on the court. Water polo with my one-handed passes, volleyball too, maybe when I tap passes.

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.

I’m the only person who can talk volleyball all the time.

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!

The regular pro tour focuses on just the very few top players. But it doesn’t focus on the other thousands of passionate volleyball players out there.

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

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

Japan is one of my favorite places to play. Not just because they love volleyball, but the people are so nice and they’re so clean and organized.

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.

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’ve thought about it a lot: How do I want to leave my legacy? And what do I want to leave behind when I’m done with the sport and with USA Volleyball.

I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it.

Everyone who’s great – play any sport, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, don’t matter, everyone’s failed. Everyone’s gonna fail. It’s how you bounce back.

You think about all the years that a USA volleyball team has been in the Olympics and have tried and have fallen short. Then to feel like you’re pushing for something and you’re trying to find that edge and then you finally do it, it’s like, Whoa, it worked!’

I certainly think it’s ironic that beach volleyball was first played in the 1930s in Santa Monica and tournaments of a high caliber have been happening in this country since the 1940s, and the FIVB, for many years, has ignored beach volleyball.

I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

My buddies and I were just hooked on beach volleyball. We were obsessed with the game.

The original way to play beach volleyball was in a bikini and board shorts, and I don’t know what else they want us to wear.

I usually play volleyball three times a week.

I play volleyball on the beach. It’s a great way to work out and have fun.

I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.

I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I think all volleyball players are playing with some type of shoulder injury. You use it so much.

When it comes to beach volleyball, we’re playing in 100-degree-plus weather.

I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.

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

I’d say I was a tomboy… I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

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

I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.

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!’

I’d like to thank everyone who has given me the opportunity to play with the best beach volleyball players in the world.