A biography for Karch Kiralyhasn’t been written yet.
“There will always be people who think volleyball, at least for boys anyway, is a sport you play when you can't letter in anything else.”
“It's the quest for perfection that makes athletes great.”
“I love being a parent, and when I'm gone even 2 1/2 days for a tournament, I'm forcing Janna to be a single parent.”
“I love beach volleyball.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I can stay in the game for a long time.”
“I've heard every pronunciation ever, but the worst was when I was in New York for a radio show at some restaurant. On the door it said, 'Now appearing: Kard Kiard.'”
“Al was already a legend when I got to campus. You wanted to play for the best? You went to UCLA to play for Al Scates.”
“In the past I was doing a lot of jump training and felt like that was sufficient for my lower body.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.”
“I would love to be playing in Manhattan one more time.”
“When I started playing on the beach there was nothing, no prize money at all. I didn't expect there to be any, and I didn't even dream there would ever be money.”
“Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.”
“Once the ball goes up, nobody's paying attention to what we're wearing.”
“For us it's better to think of our opponents as idiots. It's easier to play hard against someone you don't like than it is to play against a friend.”
“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.”
“Great passing and setting - I admire that more than the super big guys pounding the ball.”