Volleyball Sayings with Candy

[belle22]

Anyone know any cute volleyball sayings to use with candy for treat bags?

 

[lilysmommy]

what about "mike and SPIKE" for mike and ikes?

 

[Suzanne033]

Here is a list I have for my daughter. They are categorized by subject:

PRACTICE QUOTES

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest, until your good is better and your better is best.” – Tim Duncan (2012)

“There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory” –Unknown

“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street

“Practice does NOT make perfect. Practice makes permanent. PERFECT practice makes perfect.” –Vince Lombardi

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” – Joe Paterno

"You don't always get what you wish for, you get what you work for."

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it.” - T. Alan Armstrong

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

“Set your goals high and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.” –Roy Keane

“You can’t make a great play unless you do it first in practice.” – Chuck Noll

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
- Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own

“If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.” - Hershel Walker

"I hated every minute of practicing, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" - Muhammed Ali

“Behind every fearless player is a fearless coach who refused to let them be anything but the best they can be.”

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. “- Michael Jordan

“If you fail to practice, you are practicing to fail!”

“If you want to play, then practice. If you want to win, then practice harder.” - Cardell Holinaty

1000 times by yourself = 100 times in practice = 1 time in a game

"There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts." - Michael Jordan

“Champions are made when no one is looking.” - GC football state championship shirt

“Practice is the effort that makes winning possible.” Author Unknown

“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”

“Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” – Martha Graham

“Wearing the same uniform doesn’t make you a team – Coming together is the start – Playing together is progress – Working together is success – Winning together is the result”

“Practice is the effort that makes winning possible.”

“The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” ~Paul Bryant

“Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.” - Unknown

"Success comes before work only in the dictionary." –Anonymous

"Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare." - Author Unknown

"The harder you train, the easier the game."

"Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second." - Unknown

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.” ~Gary Player

“Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” -Vince Lombardi

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Darrell Royal

“First master the fundamentals.” Larry Bird

“It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours.” Unknown

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.” Unknown

“Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation.” Shannon Wilburn

“All battles are won before they are fought.” Sun Tzu

"Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success." Bruce Pearl, basketball coach

LEADERSHIP QUOTES

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, any goal.” – Vince Lombardi

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” – Tom Landry

“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to, to achieve what they want to achieve.” – Tom Landry

"The answer to three questions will determine your success or failure.
1. Can people trust me to do my best?
2. Am I committed to the task in hand?
3. Do I care about other people and show it?
If the answers to all three questions are yes, there is no way you can fail." -Lou Holtz

"Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time." -Knute Rockne

“A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.” John Wooden

“The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.” – Vince Lombardi

GAMES QUOTES

“It’s hard to detect good luck because it looks so much like something you have earned.” –Frank Clark

“I am a believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” -Seneca

“The setter: a hard working TALENTED volleyball player who receives NO GLORY!”

“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” - Pele

“The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.” Dave DeBusschere

T: together
E: everyone
A: achieves
M: more

"Play for the little girl in the stand who looks at you and tells her dad, "I want to be just like her." - Unknown

“If we score, we might win. If they never score...We can’t lose.” - Unknown

“It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size of the fight in the dog.” - Unknown

Attitude + Altitude = VOLLEYBALL SUCCESS

“It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.” -Larry Bird

"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ‘me’ for the ‘we.’" - Phil Jackson

“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.” - Ron Blomberg

“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

“Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.” ~Author Unknown

“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should accomplish with your ability." - John Wooden

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” -Michael Jordan

“Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.” Jim Tressel

“On the road you're somebody else's guests - play in a way that they're not going to forget you visited them.” Knute Rockne

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz

“It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.” John Wooden

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

“To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” Unknown

“You cannot control how high 'he' jumps. You cannot control how fast 'he' is. You cannot control how great 'he' is. But he cannot control how hard 'YOU' play.” Brian Merritt

“Teamwork: The fuel that produces uncommon results in common people.” Unknown

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching." Anson Dorrance

“If we can come in and play solid volleyball, we’ll shut them down early and shut them up early.”

“Trade sweat for strength, trade weakness for power, trade doubt for confidence, trade fear for courage, trade volleyball for nothing.”

“I don’t need the glory, I don’t need the fame. I don’t need the spotlight. I just need the ball.”

“If you believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Ronnie Lott

FUNNY QUOTES
“Sports are 90% mental. The other half is physical” – Yogi Berra

“DIG deep within yourself. SET high goals. HIT the target. BLOCK out distractions. Win!”

“Volleyball… It’s not how tall you ARE. It’s how tall you PLAY.”

“If volleyball were easy they’d call it football.”

“If volleyball were easy guys would play!”

“I am too cute to be a cheerleader, so I play volleyball.”

"Playing volleyball is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired." - Robert Strauss

“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.” Bill Russell

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where the puck is..." Wayne Gretzky, great hockey player when asked how he scores so many goals.

“Yeah, I play like a girl. You got a problem with that?”

“Are you really trying or am I that good?”

“Don’t you wish your girlfriend could play like me?”

“You wish you could hit like a girl.”

“People say I hit like a girl and I thank them.”

ADVERSITY QUOTES

"It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome." -Jack Nicklaus

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” - Vince Lombardi

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.” Vince Lombardi

“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

“You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.” -Pat Riley, basketball coach

“What to do with a mistake--recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it” -Dean Smith, basketball coach

“You are never a loser until you quit trying.” – Mike Ditka

OTHER QUOTES

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, volleyball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. Gene Mauch

 

[Luv]

Mine, mine, mine

 

[NookOfTheNorth]

I found this blog when looking for stuff for my daughter's team http://bcreasch1989.blogspot.com/2011/09/volleyball-treats.html

If you haven't tried Pinterest, I'd look there too.