Oikawa Quotes

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

Today might be the chance to grasp the chance to let your talent bloom. Maybe tomorrow, the day after, or next year... Maybe even when you're thirty. I'm not sure if physique has anything to do with it, but if you think that it will never come, it probably never will.

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

If you're going to hit it, hit it until it breaks.

Talent is something you make bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

When you dedicate yourself to pushing higher, you’re going to have to expect the hard times to outweigh the fun. It gets to the point where you begin to believe that if it isn’t hard, if it isn’t rough, then you aren’t giving everything you can. Yet, without any rhyme or reason, from time to time, something fun will just hit… out of nowhere. It’s that fun that keeps pulling me onward. Volleyball is fun. Every time I forget that, it comes back to remind me.

Oikawa has strong work ethic and an instinctive feel for the game. Yet when you compare him to a natural prodigy like Kageyama who is only two years younger than him... It becomes clear that Oikawa, while skilled, is not a genius. However, I can say with utter certainly, of the two setters out there on this court righ now... Oikawa is better.

Prejudice like that isn't very becoming of you my friend.

Tobio-chan, you should have at least learned by now that volleyballi s not a sport where just one gifted person on a team makes a difference when it comes to winning a game." Kageyama scowls. "What the hell does that have to do with anything?" Oikawa pats his head. "Still as useless as ever; I'm telling you a universal truth about volleyball. Something I'm willing to bet every player in Japan believes." "What does that mean?" Oikawa rolls his eyes. "It means we have a lot of phone calls to make. And by 'we' I mean me, since God knows you're not going to be any help.

Oikawa always says that before every game. Given his usually flippant attitude, some people might take that for a joke, or even a threat. But every player on this team knows that it is the unvarnished truth. And as he has faith in them, they too have comple faith in him.

If you’re going to hit it, hit it until it breaks!

Talent is something you bloom. Instinct is something you polish.