Best 145 quotes in «softball quotes» category

Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

My mom would never let us quit. She always taught us the importance of sticking with it, even when times are tough. We didn't just hear her, we watched her. I know what to do because she led the way. She showed us that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish the world. No matter where you're from and what you're up against.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

Oh my god, Jenny McCarthy is the coolest chick. She's the kind of girl you can play volleyball with and she's diggin' it out in the dirt. She's the girl that's playing softball - not worrying about breaking a nail. She's out there breaking nails and diving at second. And then, she's going to out-drink you at the bar.

One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field carries over directly into life. In a team sport you have to learn how to work together, to set goals, and then work toward those goals in a productive way. You learn to be responsible and you learn how to not only depend on others, but also be independent so you can support others.

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

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

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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?

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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