Volley Quotes

• If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

  Stefan Edberg

  Easier, Wells, Ifs

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• I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes

  Richard Krajicek

  Athlete, Player, Bigs

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• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

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• One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Nice, Tennis, Joy

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

  Andy Murray

  Moving, Player, Needs

  "'I'm not happy with being No. 4 in the world'". Interview with Ravi Ubha, www.espn.co.uk. March 16, 2010.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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  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

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

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• 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

  Sports, Volleyball, Screw Ups

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• Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Volleyball, Winning

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• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Sports, Quilts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Funny, Volleyball, Beach

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• Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fire, Numbers, Balls

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• Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Tennis, Hints

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• For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

  Charles Studd

  Doors, Years, Missionary

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• I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

  Maria Sharapova

  Running, Swings, Trying

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• I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

  Andy Roddick

  People, Return, Used

  "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

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• Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

  Sandra Bullock

  Cameras, Sound, Scene

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• Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

  C. J. Cherryh

  Night, Ideas, Tennis

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• Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it.

  Barry Davies

  Two, Tennis, Stories

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• Fold him in his country's stars.
  Roll the drum and fire the volley!
  What to him are all our wars,
  What but death bemocking folly?

  George Henry Boker

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169

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• I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.

  Wayne Rooney

  Thinking, Play, Feet

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• [Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

  David Brooks

  Two, May, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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