Top 100 Quotes About Softball
#1. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Danny Villanueva
#2. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.
Sue Enquist
#4. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
Duke Snider
#5. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
#6. 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.
Manny Mota
#7. Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.
Jennie Finch
#8. Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.
Eric Schlosser
#9. When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Mackenzie Astin
#10. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Edward De Bono
#11. People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.
Alex Shaffer
#13. I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.
Michael Jordan
#14. You expect success, you respect failure.
Greg Norman
#15. You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!
Shannon MacMillan
#16. Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
Jamie Moyer
#17. A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.
Jennie Finch
#18. You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.
Lou Lamoriello
#19. I am a winner. I just didn't win today.
Greg Norman
#20. I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.
Jack Nicklaus
#21. What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.
Anson Dorrance
#22. I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#23. I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
Venus Williams
#25. If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.
Bruce Bochy
#26. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.
George Vecsey
#27. For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there
James Gibbons
#28. I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!
Jimmy Connors
#29. We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.
Josh Holloway
#30. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.
Beverly Johnson
#31. 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.
Tom Seaver
#32. It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Johnny Miller
#34. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
#35. Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
George Whitefield
#36. Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.
Adam Graham
#37. 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.
Jennie Finch
#38. When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#39. A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.
Mike Piazza
#40. You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
Mike Webster
#41. In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.
Dave Barry
#42. Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.
Lawrence O'Donnell
#43. I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game ... usually softball.
Matthew Modine
#44. Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.
Amy Ruley
#45. Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.
Layne Beachley
#46. Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.
Mia Hamm
#47. A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
Dawn Staley
#48. I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.
Natalie Grant
#49. I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
Gregory Benford
#50. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#51. It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.
Lance Berkman
#52. You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
Brandi Chastain
#53. I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.
JWoww
#54. Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.
George Vecsey
#56. Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.
Sara Gilbert
#57. It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be
Paul Arden
#58. Life is what you make it so make the best of it.
Anthony Shay
#59. Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.
Yvette Girouard
#60. We actually had a Kansa band softball team.
Phil Ehart
#62. 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.
Claire Carver-Dias
#63. 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.
Evander Holyfield
#64. I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.
Lupe Fiasco
#65. We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.
Lisa Fernandez
#67. A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.
John Elway
#68. You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
Muhammad Ali
#69. Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.
Yvonne Zipter
#70. I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.
Ginger Rogers
#71. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
#73. A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.
Nolan Ryan
#74. Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.
George Steinbrenner
#75. Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
Nora Ephron
#76. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.
Butch Harmon
#77. We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says 'Emotionally, physically, mentally - come to the field prepared.' Because if you don't bring that to the field, you're going to get beat.
Laura Berg
#78. When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#79. I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
Elana Meyers
#80. When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
Paula Creamer
#81. 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.
Bill Bradley
#82. You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.
Andrea Jaeger
#83. Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
Mary Roach
#84. It's not the most conducive weather to play softball in, but you've got to come out and play it.
Mike Candrea
#85. When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up.
Tim Walters
#86. I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.
John Welter
#87. I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.
Mariano Rivera
#88. Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.
Nolan Ryan
#89. I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed ... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
Josh Charles
#90. Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.
Lynn Sherr
#91. I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
Cassandra Wilson
#92. 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
Crystl Bustos
#93. I love the summer ... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water ... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat.
James Madison
#94. I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.
Amy Van Dyken
#95. I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.
Brooklyn Decker
#96. I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.
Jennie Finch
#97. Being well regulated in relatedness is the deeply gratifying state that people seek ceaselessly in romance, religions, and cults; in husbands and wives, pets, softball teams, bowling leagues, and a thousand other features of human life driven by the thirst for sustaining affiliations. (157)
Thomas Lewis
#98. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.
Don Maynard
#99. You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.
Rebecca Twigg
#100. A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
Dot Richardson