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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You have to learn every day. You can't be playing every day, but you can be practicing. If you cannot be practicing with a net and others daily, you still can be learning about the game by reading, watching and imaging. You must learn every day, if you want to be a real volleyball player. —