Softball Sports Quotes

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

Johnny Rutherford

#2. 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.

Debi Thomas

#3. 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.

Chris Evert

#4. I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

Juli Inkster

#5. You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

LeBron James

#6. I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Gabrielle Union

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

Yvonne Zipter

#8. 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.

Hale Irwin

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

Bill Walsh

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

Lisa Fernandez

#11. Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Stan Smith

#12. I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Boris Becker

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

Gabrielle Reece

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

Brian Tracy

#15. [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

Elana Meyers

#16. 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.

Larry Bird

#17. If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.

Bob Beamon

#18. Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

Trevor Hoffman

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

Amy Van Dyken

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

Lynn Sherr

#23. A tie is like kissing your sister.

Duffy Daugherty

#24. Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

David Duval

#25. Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.

Jennie Finch

#26. Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

Bear Bryant

#27. 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.

Jennie Finch

#28. If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi

#29. Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Jennie Finch

#30. 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.

Jack Nicklaus

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

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#32. If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.

Zak Kustok

#33. 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.

Kerri Strug

#34. 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

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

Greg Maddux

#36. I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Dot Richardson

#37. As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.

Libbie Hickman

#38. View every problem as an opportunity ...

Joseph Sugarman

#39. I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.

Linda Sanchez

#40. 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.

Tom Seaver

#41. I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

Mike Candrea

#42. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#43. I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

Allen Iverson

#44. 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.

Tom Seaver

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

James Gibbons

#52. 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

#53. If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Bruce Bochy

#54. The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

Anson Dorrance

#58. 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

#59. I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Greg Norman

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. You expect success, you respect failure.

Greg Norman

#63. 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

#64. People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.

Alex Shaffer

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

Andrea Jaeger

#70. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

Butch Harmon

#71. 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

#72. I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

Mark Philippoussis

#73. 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

#74. Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.

Yvonne Zipter

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Danny Villanueva

#79. Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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

Yvette Girouard

#81. You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Brandi Chastain

#82. A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

Dawn Staley

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen