Best 145 quotes in «softball quotes» category

Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

Stalking the girls' softball team again?

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

Strive to be the best you can be...focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough'...and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.

To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

View every problem as an opportunity.

When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

We don't wear cups. We win them!

We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

We're going to step on the field knowing that every team we're going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn't seen. ... We've just got to be ready to step up with them

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.