"The question is not how good you are now, rather, when will you choose to stop improving. The trouble with experience is that you start to think you're good and that's when you relax. You become complacent and you loose your intensity and focus. The practice session where you no longer need to ask others how to perform better is the day you must start questioning yourself."

"Always shoot ahead of the target. You have to use your imagination."

"It is such a joy to give...and it is such a privilege, and it is even more than a privilege-it is an absolute duty in life." -Jon Huntsman

"The easiest thing to get people to agree to is mediocrity."

"In all matters of Faith, just be willing to take the first step."

In volleyball, passing determines at what level you can play. Defense determines who wins."

Victory and Defeat have the same origins; YOUR MIND!"

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy." -Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Fear is excitement without breath."

"Desire is no substitute for talent."

"Behind every volleyball player is another volleyball player."

"You can not make yesterday's practice better today. You can make today's practice better than yesterday's practice."

Character: "To get up everyday with the resolve to do a little bit better than you did the day before." -B.C.

"A window of opportunity won't open itself" -Dave Weinbaum

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -Oprah Winfrey

"If I believe in myself, then I do not need to perform."

"The crushed acorn can become a mighty oak."

"All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, friends, teachers, coaches can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen." -Wisdom, Inc.

"Ideas are easy. It's execution that's hard." -Jeff Bezos

"You owe it to yourself to deal with whatever infirmity you have." -Howard Bingham

The wealth is in the waiting."

"You get what you tolerate."

"What we take, we must replenish."

"How we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society-determine those for you."

"We all have the same beginning-birth; we all have the same end-death. So how different can we be?"

"Don't be too surprised at how easily things go on without you."

"To find the mening of life, stop taking out the garbage."

"The most important thing in life is to give out love, and to let love come in."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy into it."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as the past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it is too late to get involved."

"What is a vision? It is a compelling image of an achievable future." -Laura Fortgang

"The way people move is their autobiography in motion." -Gerry Spence

"When you dwell on your mistakes, you become overly absorbed in and with yourself, and you don't have anything left over to give to others. If a mistake is made, immediately find a way to make a contribution. Every positive effort is important"

"Tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint."

"To be good everytime you go out, is a chore. And the irony in all of this is, it's no fun until it's over. It's hard work. And you have to be willing to put it on the line." -Joe Greene

It doesn't matter if I'm coming from Eart. It doesn't matter if you are coming from outer space. If our goal is to get to the same place, that is all that matters." -Simeon Rice

"What you do is not who you are."

"There are two pains in life, Discipline and Regret."

"Don't give up when you are on the brink of a miracle."

"The widest gap in the universe is not space; it is the difference between your potential and present capabilities."

"Nails didn't hold God to a cross, love did."

"The true children of God are those who let God's spirit lead them." -Rom. 8:14

"Faith transcends human limitation."

"Faith in the soul puts the DARE into dreams."

"Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is."

"Succeed in what matters."

"Unless you are the lead dog, the view never changes."

"Look to better people, then look to better people."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Reputation is often based on character-but not always." -John Wooden

"The final score is not the "final score." You are not a loser if you have done your best."

"Make each day's practice a masterpiece. You can't make up a poor practice by working harder tomorrow."

"No team has ever played a perfect game. Every team has the ability to strive for the perfect game."

"Good-Better-Best. Never let it it rest till your good is better than your best!"

"The pain now is part of the happiness later." -C.L. Lewis

"All saints have a past. All sinners have a future."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business." -Michael J. Fox

"Those volleyball players who rely on their own abilities and potential will continue to march forward so that they will eventually end up back where they started. Those players who rely on their teammates to help them reach their potential will take their team to the next level of success."

Sin will always cause 3 things:
1. Cause you to go further than where you wanted to go.
2. Stay longer than you wanted to stay.
3. Cost more than what you wanted to pay.

Yesterday is the past. You can not change it.
Tomorrow is the future. You can not count on it.
Today is all that you have and it is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Use your present wisely.

"There is nowhere to go and nothing to do to become happy. We need only to stop disturbing ourselves and happiness will emerge."

"Not every person can be a lighthouse. However, everyone can be a candle."

"Your performance level is not as important as your reason for your performance level."

"It is the responsibility of the athlete to bring her own motivation to practice or a competitive event."

"Once you make a commitment to be part of this program, your honor becomes more important than your moods."

"What don't you understand about giving 100% to a common cause?"

"Don't trade your diamonds for dust."

"What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?" -Shakespeare

Honor, Courage, Commitment.

"Concentrate on doing a single task as simply as you can, execute it flawlessly, and take care of your teammates."

You do not have any limitations. What you do have are feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, etc.
These feelings cause you to not perform to your ability or cause you to lessen your contribution.
Christ's death removed your limitations. Why do you waste his efforts by your feelings of inadequacy or insecurity? Why take back what he removed?

Tell the truth. Don't give up. Don't whine.
Look out for the team before you look out for yourself.
Always do your best no matter how small you think your contribution will be.
You owe it to yourself and your teammates to strive to be the best at what you are doing at this moment.
Judge others by their actions, not by their words, their race, their religion or their gender.

"Don't pursue happiness; pursue excellance. Make a habit of that and you can have a fulfilling life.

"Money, possessions or accomplishments are not the true measure of a person. A person's real wealth is in her character."

"Finish what you start"

"First Rule for hole diggers: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

Rules to motivate teammates:
1. If anything goes bad, "I did it."
2. If anything goes semi-good, "We did it."
3. If anything goes real good, "You did it."

"Do your best"

"Keep your promises."

"The way you are is not what you are, but the way you have chosen to be."

"We do what we want to do."

"It is one thing to carry excess baggage. It is another thing to hit someone with it."

"Conflict is inevitable. Combat is optional."

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." -Sally Koch

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" -Rumi

"From what we get, we can make a living. What we give, however, makes a life." -Arthur Ashe

"The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us." -AA

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people that get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them." -George Bernard Shaw

"First say to yourself, "What would you be?"; and then do what you have to do." -Epictetus

"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it is easy."

"Excellence measures a woman by the height of her ideals, the breath of her compassion, the depth of her convictions and the length of her persistence. People will always determine your character by observing what you stand for, fall for, and lie for>"

"All women who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." -Sir Walter Scott

You do not have any limitations in your life. You may have feelings of insecurity or inadequacy when you compare yourself to someone else, but these are only feelings. You weren't born with them. You created those feelings. We do not all walk the same paths. You are called to be better today than you were yesterday, to do what you do in your life as well as you possibly can and to do it with greater generosity and more forgiving love towards yourself and the people around you. Do not get into comparing yourself with others. You should strive to be as unselfish as you might be on your own particular path through life. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness.

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." -Danny Thomas

"It may be all right to be content with what you have; NEVER with what you are." -B.C. Forbes

"If you refuse to accept anything but the very best from yourself and your teammates, you will very often get it."

"Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is permanent."

"Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service and character." -William Arthur Ward

"Spiritual greatness has nothing to do with being greater than others. It has everything to do with being as great as each of us can be. Individual greatness has everything to do with living one's life for something, for Someone, beyond one's self."

"Fear is useless. What is needed is trust." -MK 5:36

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice."

"Heroines begin their journeys into the unknown with just their wits and an inborn courage to sustain them."

"Carpe diem!"

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." -G.S. Patton

"Lord, deliver me from the woman who never makes a mistake, and also from the woman who makes the same mistake twice."

"My concern is not whether you have won or lost, but whether you are content with your won or loss."

"A person that is successful has simply chosen to perform at a level that unsuccessful people choose to not perform at."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You build your reputation on what you have presently accomplished."

"Confidence: Knowing that you have done a little thing well, that you can do a bigger thing well too." -Storey

"You will never reach your potential until your priorities become habitual."

"Let go of whatever makes you stop."

"A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies-the fear of failure. Set that dream free by determining that you will make it happen!" -Dexter Yager

"You are what you have decided to be!"

"I do not fear failure. I only fear the 'slowing up' of the engine inside me which is pounding, saying 'KEEP GOING, SOMEONE MUST BE ON TOP, WHY NOT YOU?" -George S. Patton

"Success is not measured by what a team accomplishes, but by the opposition the team has encountered, and the courage and persistence with which that team has maintained during the struggle to obtain its goals."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal-every day is opening night." -Peter Daniels

"An electric current will follow the line of least resistance; but a light bulb glows precisely because there is resistance. Many of us instinctively choose the shortest, easiest, quickest way to success, only to discover that the success was an illusion; that the light bulb did not glow. Hard work is only rarely pleasurable. But conquest-of matter, mind or soul-is pleasurable; it is conducive to well being, to happiness. And no conquest can be achieved without hard work-no conquest can give true pleasure if it has not required hard work." -Og Mandino's University of Success, page 41

"Never let up when you are ahead. Never give up when you are behind."

"Refuse no one the good on which she has a claim when it is in your power to do it for her. Say not to your neighbor, 'go, and come again, tomorrow I will give' when you can give at once." -Proverbs 3:27-28

"Lord, let me give no excuses for doing what needs to be done right here, right now."

"She who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; she who would achieve much must sacrifice much; she who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly." -James Allen

"God never consults your past to determine your future. Neither should you."

"Be a dreamer..." -Jim Valvano

"I'm no miracle worker. I'm just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work." -Don Shula

"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live fearlessly." -Oprah Winfrey

"Do not build mental 'monsters' of fear and worry." -Van Crouch

"Champions talk faith because their focus is on the finished results."

"Winners talk opportunities."

"Failure cannot happen without your permission."

"Those who are unwilling to lose, rarely do."

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." -James Allen

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your own mind, or permit others to set for you."

"The final element that identifies great teams from good teams is strength. The kind of strength that only comes from a team's unity of purpose."

"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need to use is what we have." -Basil Walsh

"Know that you can always do the very best you can, where you are, with what you have."

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." -Norman Vincent Peale

"When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to your team." -Andy Granatelli

"The only thing that stands between a person and what she wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." -Richard M. Devos

"Thunder makes a lot of noise, but lightning gets the job done. When you have to scream and yell, you are trying to convince yourself. We just come out for warm-ups and go about our business. Our business is playing volleyball better than anyone else."

"God is first. My teammates are second. I am third"

"You overcome physical shortcomings with attitude, and I don't just mean desire and dedication or persistence. I mean obsession. I am a woman obsessed and I admit it. I take no shortcuts and I take no prisoners."

"When you decide what you want, the 'How-To-Do-It" will emerge."

"Champions do not become champions on the court. They are merely recognized on the court. Their becoming a champion happens in their daily routine."

"To win, you must be willing to do those things that no one else is willing to do! To be champions, you must be willing to do those things that you do not want to do!"

"If you can dream it, you can do it...this whole thing was started by a mouse." -Walt Disney

"If what we have accomplished so far this season still looks good to you today, then we haven't done much today!"

"You must be strong with the strength that flows from Faith! There is no need to be afraid. The frontiers must be opened." -Pope John Paul II

"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you create or the problems you solve."

"You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there."

"Every person fails. Champions simply get back up and begin again."

"That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"It's a dream until you write it down. Then it is a goal."

"If you understand sacrifice and commitment, there are not many things in life you can't achieve."

"Many are prepared to play, few are prepared to win!"