John Kessel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.
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Less effort in this game makes more results.
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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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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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Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.
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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.
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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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The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
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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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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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Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.
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Focus on winning the contest with yourself.
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Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.
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You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.
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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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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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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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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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Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.
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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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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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Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.
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You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
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It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
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