80 Volleyball Quotes To Serve Hard and Win

Volleyball is a challenging sport that takes incredible skill, endurance, and motivation.

If you want to take your game to the next level, then these volleyball quotes are just what you need to read today.

An awesome sport that can be played year round by people of different ages and skill levels, there are many reasons to love volleyball.

Besides the pure enjoyment of the game, you can reap many benefits by playing it.

First, it’s a fun way to reach fitness goals.

Playing volleyball can help you burn calories, improve muscle strength and tone, as well as boost hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and balance.

Volleyball is also good for your emotional and mental health.

It’s an enjoyable exercise that can reduce stress and anxiety, as well as help in managing mood swings and even abate depression.

Last but not least, playing volleyball is a great social activity that enhances teamwork and communication.

It’s an entertaining way to bond with family, friends or coworkers.

Whatever your reasons may be, you can reap many different benefits by playing volleyball.

Below is our collection of fun, inspiring, and motivating volleyball quotes, volleyball sayings, and volleyball proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

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Volleyball Quotes To Serve Hard and Win

1. “Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor.” – John Kessel

2. “The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.” – Pete Carroll

3. “Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.” – Gabrielle Reece

4. “Don’t just beat them, make a lasting impression that makes them never want to see your face again.” – Mia Hamm

5. “Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.” – Bud Wilkinson

6. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi

7. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

8. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” – Tom Hanks

9. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

10. “You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”  – Joe Namath

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Volleyball quotes that will inspire you to take your game to the next level

11. “Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.” — Billie Jean King

12. “My boyfriend told me I had to choose between him and volleyball….big mistake…I’m really gonna miss him.” – Jean-Claude Killy

13. “You have to perform consistently at a higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.” – Joe Paterno

14. “Coaches must be critical thinkers, not protectors of the status quo.” – Mike Herbert

15. “It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don’t have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.” – Misty May-Treanor

16. “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land on the stars.” – Unknown

17. “I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.” – Summer Altice

18. “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you.” – Helen Keller

19. “You have to be willing to fail, to improve.” — Al Scates

20. “Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation – but most of all, of reciprocity – of teamwork. There is no way to freelance in volleyball.” – Marv Dunphy

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Volleyball quotes to make you strong

21. “Volleyball: Invented by men, perfected by women.” – Unknown

22. “No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” – Sheryl Swoopes

23. “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden

24. “Volleyball is life; everything else is details.” – Unknown

25. “Being able to hold my own against the best in the world, on the beach or indoors, is something I’m very proud of.” – Wilt Chamberlain

26. “I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.” – Kerri Walsh

27. “The backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, perseverance and good planning.” – Mia Hamm

28. “The Six W’s: Work will win when wishing won’t.” – Todd Blackledge

29. “Don’t fire your opponents up. If they’re down, don’t tick them off. Let them stay down.” – Sinjin Smith

30. “All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, “There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.” – Ted Williams

Volleyball quotes to inspire and motivate you

31. “Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.” – William A. Ward

32. “I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” – Gale Sayers

33. “You can’t just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.” – Mia Hamm

34. “If you care at all, you will get some results. If you care enough, you will get incredible results.” – Jim Rohn

35. “Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.” – Sean Scott

36. “Volleyball is the sport through which I am able to express my God-given talents of being an athlete. It is a sport which involves relating, pushing, and encouraging your teammates. It has helped evolve me into the person I am today.” – David Beard

37. “To be prepared is half the victory.” – Miguel Cervantes

38. “On beach volleyball: You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can’t go hide in the corner.” – Kerri Walsh

39. “Unless you are willing to go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” – Philip Adams

40. “Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost.” – Martina Navratilova

41. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” – Satchel Paige

42. “If volleyball was easy it would be called football.” – Unknown

43. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

44. “A great defensive play is worth about five points in emotion.” – Caren Kemner

45. “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back—play for her.” — Mia Hamm

46. “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” – Muhammad Ali

47. “I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.” — Todd Rogers

48. “Don’t ever let the ball hit the ground without a body hitting the ground with it.” – Unknown

49. “Breathe, believe, and battle. My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe – be in the moment. Believe – have faith that you can rise above it. Battle – you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.” – Kerri Walsh

50. “There is pressure on every play. You can’t make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can’t make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.” – Holly McPeak

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51. “Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It’s fun, and nobody can get hurt.” – Gail Parent

52. “Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.” – Liam Hemsworth

53. “Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.” – John Kessel

54. “Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices, I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.” – LeBron James

55. “I’m a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.” – Teddy Sears

56. “The guy that designed girls’ volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.” – Jay Mohr

57. “Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.” – Karch Kiraly

58. “It’s the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.” – Harry Sinden

59. “In my opinion, the teaching of volleyball technique, …, must always be correlated with tactical tasks.” – Viacheslav Platonov

60. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi

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61. “I love sports – I used to play volleyball really competitively…I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I’ve ridden horses my whole life.” — Gigi Hadid

62. “I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.” — Ari Shaffir

63. “It’s really easy to get caught up in all the catty-ness of the volleyball.” — Brooke Sweat

64. “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!'” — Jordan Larson

65. “My mentality has always been, If I’m not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn’t going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.” — Gigi Hadid

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

67. “I’ve always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.” — Gisele Bundchen

68. “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.” — Summer Altice

69. “I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.” — Kerri Walsh Jennings

70. “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.” — Shilpa Shetty

Volleyball Quotes From Volleyball Players

71. “I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I’m not being immodest when I say I’m a natural athlete.” — Ginger Rogers

72. “I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.” — Jasmine Tookes

73. “Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.” — Gabrielle Reece

74. “Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.” — John Kessel

75. “I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.” — Gisele Bundchen

76. “I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.” — Danny Strong

77. “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.” — Bethany Hamilton

78. “My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.” — Gisele Bundchen

79. “There are two basic situations in volleyball – either you got the ball or you don’t.” — John Kessel

80. “I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.” — Sarah Shahi

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Volleyball is one of the world’s most popular sports.

According to figures, it’s played by over 800 million people around the world at least once a week.

Whether you play it indoors or outdoors, you are sure to enjoy many benefits of playing volleyball.

So what are you waiting for, grab a few friends, head to the beach or the gym and have some fun.

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