John Kessel Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Church

• Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, People

• Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Asks

• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

• The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

• There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Get Better, Shapes

• There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Games, Two

• Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Player

• Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Balls

• The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Thinking, Substitutes

• Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Journey

• You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

• Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

• A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

• 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.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

• The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

• 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.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

• An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

• There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Two

• You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

• I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Art, Player

• No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

• Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Practice

• Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Ears, Mouths

• Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Lasts

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin