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

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    Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

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    Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

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    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.

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    Ethics is for people with full bellies.

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    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.

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    Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

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    Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

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    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.'

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    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.

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    If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

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    In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

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    Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

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    Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

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    Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

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    Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

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    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.

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    Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

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    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.

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

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    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?'

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

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    Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

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    Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.

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    Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

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    The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

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

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    The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

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    There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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    The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

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    Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

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

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    Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

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    Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

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    Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

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

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    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. —