The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.
We have an enormous part of the FBI in our counter intelligence division and in our cyber division that focuses on just threat and making sure that we do everything that we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us.
When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!