Maybe Beccause I Just Have this Undying Love for Sports

You run like a girl. You jump like a girl. You serve 165 km/h in their faces. Like a girl."
-Australian Female Volleyball

Volleyball is the sport through which I am able to express my God-given talents of being an athlete. It is a sport which involves relating, pushing, and encouraging your teammates. It has helped evolve me into the person I am today.
-David Beard

The setter, a hard working TALENTED volleyball player who receives NO GLORY!
-Author Unknown

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

"When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you can't go out and play. You're missing a part of you. That's what's painful. That's what hurts." -Jamila Wideman

"Wear your battle scars as medals of honor."
-Unknown

"Playing your favorite sport is like being able to get candy when you're at the store with your mom. Being on the field and having all your problems drift away for the two hours you play is like the most relaxing thing I can think of."
-Danielle Ballentine

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
-George Patton

"The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game." -Timothy Shriver, Ph.D.

"A race is not well-run unless you've crossed the finish line knowing that you couldn't have kept going for one more step. If you could have, then you didn't give it everything you had."
-Jackie Dugall

"When you are out there on the soccer field playing, nothing else matters at the time. It's like the whole world has disappeared, and you and your teammates are all that matters."
-Amber Massey

“My potential is great - I compete with the confidence of the champion… point after point…. game after game." - Unknown

"To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal."
-Dianne Holum

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
-Lance Armstrong

The best feeling in the world
is walking into an athletic atmosphere and knowing
the other athletes are scared to death to compete against you.
-Matt Hurst

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

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day,
lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that?
It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her.
I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.
-Willie Mays

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is?
The opportunity to play.
-Mike Singletary

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last.
It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come,
but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
-Jackie Joyner Kersee

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
-Nancy Kerrigan

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