Softball Quotations

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball

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.

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

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

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.

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.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

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.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

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

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.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

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

One of the goals we always set is to improve from the beginning of the season to the end. Lawrence Central softball has never won a sectional title, so that's one of our goals.

Nice Sunday afternoon softball game, where everybody got to play.

My gut feeling is we should do this . . . and I like to win. I think (if softball were readmitted) it would be a win for the IOC too.

My Dad knows softball as well as baseball. I remember watching him play and those guys were amazing.

Never in my 20 years of coaching this sport have I had one player - let alone two - taken from a field via ambulance. The most painful, emotional night in my softball life.

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.

She had to get back to the softball team. She had that commitment and needed to get ready for the season. She was a big help to us while she was here.

She loved events. This is the kind of thing that would celebrate what Kathleen would do. She loved to go to softball games and tournaments. That was the main reason.

She is a great team player and does what she is asked to do. She has played more softball than any of the girls on this team and they know that. They respect what she does and what she brings. She definitely proved herself as a captain this year.

She really just joined us and has been a nice surprise. She's a basketball player but proved today that she can play softball too.

She's about to get one of the best facilities at any college. Things are definitely looking up for our softball program.

She could hit the ball and she could field the ball. She was just a softball player at the time and still is.

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

She works at it year around. She is a dedicated softball player, she lives and breathes it. Plus she has had tremendous support from her parents (Mike and Joanne).

She was having a rough time last night because I've been gone so long. I promised her after my round I would call her before she went to softball practice, but I didn't make it. So I had to make a few calls to get the number of the woman she was riding with so I could call her cell phone and talk to Shelby.

She's one of those players who steps up to the plate and you can just see in her face that she's saying, 'I'm going to hit it by you, around you, over you, and you're not going to get me out. She can hit the home runs, she can bunt to get on, she's fast and she's very smart. She's just got that softball edge.

She's had a great experience there working with (Skyline softball coach) Denise Long. She's had good instruction and lots of playing time.

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

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.

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball season was going to start. It was the fall, and he had a couple seasons to go. I told him what I knew about it, and he wanted to know where he could get the information. Then he told me he was calling from overseas.

Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.

Growing up, softball was always my second sport. I decided at the last second to play.

From top to bottom, one through 12, our kids are very talented. We have 12 softball players, which is a nice feeling. A lot of them have played together on Perry's summer league (Northern Illinois Thunder) team.

I entered swimming this year, ... Bill and I used to spend some of our time in Green Valley, Ariz. When we lived in our winter home in Arizona, I did track and field, swimming, and softball throw. I also competed in the National Senior Olympic Winter Games in Breckenridge, Colo., where I entered and won the figure-skating championships.

Because she sees a lot of pitches, she can communicate that with the rest of batters. She loves to play the game of softball and that has rubbed off on her teammates.

Baseball deserves to be in the Olympic Games. I think there's some reorganization that needs to be done internationally and domestically. But softball is and was ready to be in the Olympic Games.

I have been around this game for a long time. I have watched a number of talented softball players, but to me, Katie is becoming one of the best in South Florida. She is that good.

We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.

he had heard from several IOC members who said they were confused at the time of the voting, believing softball was merely an extension of baseball, and now regretted their vote.

He has a great softball mind. He's also very community-minded.

Hockey is hot again. February is off to a good start, too. And we haven't even really got into baseball, softball and golf sales yet.

having done very well in the last 10 years in developing softball not only in the international level but also in the national level.

My sister and I would always be playing softball and I appreciate everything I have learned from her. And my brother and I would always be playing each other on the basketball court. I could beat him until he grew too tall for me to guard.

I was devastated, obviously. I was very disappointed. There is not much more we can do right now but strategize and try to fight to get softball back into the games.

Our numbers are such at the middle school that there probably will not be a middle school girls softball team. And that's hurting our numbers at the high school.

People in Hawaii have a built-in twinkle in their eye, and bring a sense of play and ohana to their work. When you leave work for the weekend in Boise, Idaho or Delaware, Maryland, you don't see your coworkers again until Monday -- that's not true of Hawaii, which has the most bowling and softball leagues of any state in the union.

I saw someone on the overpass and as we went under and came out, something yellow, kind of like two times the size of a softball . . . I just saw it in a flash . . . came and just crashed into the windshield.

I think Ed and I made a good team because he wasn't a yes man for me and I wasn't a yes man for him. If I did something that he didn't agree with, he'd tell me. Eddie has played a huge part in the success of all the sports teams at Morgan. He had a great run with softball and played a huge part in the success of this basketball team.

Lara Ford pitched a decent game; she still walked too many but came up with the big out when she had to have it. That's the first time we've beaten Advance in softball in quite a while. If we can cut our walks down to five or six a game, we'll be pretty good.

Jamie is the epitome of what the award means. She is at the top academically, athletically and, in the community, has represented herself and her institution with great pride. I am very proud of Jamie for this honor and congratulate her for such perseverance and dedication to her career as a softball player and teacher.