Karch Kiraly Quotes

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Karch Kiraly

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 3, 1960

It's hard to grow up to be a good man and a good husband and a good father and at least at some level, my dad gave me a great gift to be able to grow up in the volleyball context and know that I was on a good path.

Karch Kiraly

It feels awesome to be back in the winners' circle.

Karch Kiraly

If I can help my teammate or teammates play at a level they've never played at before, then it doesn't even matter so much how I play.

Karch Kiraly

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

Karch Kiraly

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.

Karch Kiraly

Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal - if we can make it.

Karch Kiraly

I guess I feel that competing well and signing all the autographs and just being available to the fans every weekend is the way I can best promote the sport.

Karch Kiraly

It was amazing to look across the net and see grown men and the panic in their eyes that they were close to losing to a kid. It was a very empowering moment for me.

Karch Kiraly

One of the things I thought was lost in the move to a smaller court was there were fewer smaller players. Like, you have to have a huge blocker to be able to excel, but that wasn't always the case.

Karch Kiraly

You have to be even better as a coach than as a player in dropping what happened, good or bad, and moving on to the next one, because there is always a new matchup to prepare for.

Karch Kiraly

Great passing and setting - I admire that more than the super big guys pounding the ball.

Karch Kiraly

I could foresee myself having some frustration in trying to help people do what I tried to do on the court and maybe having some challenges in trying to transmit that.

Karch Kiraly

If it were easy, everybody would have a gold medal, but they don't.

Karch Kiraly

I take a tremendous amount of punishment and abuse every weekend because every team serves at me. So I have to carry the offensive load. I'm hitting the ball all the time.

Karch Kiraly

When three-quarters of the tournaments were being held in parking lots and other artificial locations, that was a growing frustration for me as someone who grew up playing beach volleyball and idolizing the guys who came before me and knowing the history of the sport.

Karch Kiraly

I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.

Karch Kiraly

I don't know when pink is going to come back in style.

Karch Kiraly

Here I am, 11 years old, and these grown men have to give it everything they have to beat me. In one part of my life, I was standing toe-to-toe with grown men. It was a great feeling. My dad gave me that gift and volleyball gave me that gift.

Karch Kiraly

From the mid-'70s to the mid-'90s, that was the golden age of the beach volleyball mystique. I was absolutely mesmerized by the best players of that time.

Karch Kiraly

I played with my dad until I was 15.

Karch Kiraly