Best Inspirational Softball Quotes with image
Softball goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.
― Anonymous
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
― Warren Spahn
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.
― Jennie Finch
A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
― Dot Richardson
Be that pitcher that every hitter is afraid to face.
― Anonymous
Dream big and work hard. Play with passion and the sky is the limit. Fastpitch rocks!
― Jennie K., Catcher, Arizona
The game begins the moment you forget you’re playing.
― Anonymous
Passion creates work ethic. Work ethic creates possibilities. Possibilities create happiness.
― Anonymous
What I love about the game is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win.
― Sue Enquist
The pitcher’s mound is a place where I can feel powerful, confident, and in control.
― Anonymous
Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the name on the back.
― Anonymous
I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.
― Lisa Fernandez
Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think. Keep working. Don’t give up.
― Jennie Finch
I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.
― Jillian Michaels
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
― Tommy Lasorda
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
― Danny Masterson
Softball, it’s more than just a game!
― Coach Dave, Sluggers Softball
Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.
― Yvette Girouard
To some Softball is a game; to others it’s Life.
― Jennie Finch
Softball is life, the rest is just details.
― Anonymous
This game (softball) is a game of inches. Sometimes they are going to go our way, and sometimes they aren’t.
― Ashley Hansen
Softball girls aren’t afraid of a little dirt.
― Anonymous
Sweat dries, blood clots, bones heal, suck it up princess. This is softball.
― Anonymous
Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.
― Anonymous
I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.
― Elizabeth Banks
Softball gives girls a chance to show the boys how it’s really done.
― Anonymous
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.
― Jennie Finch
Be ready for that curve ball, because you have no idea where it’s going. Not even the pitcher knows.
― Anonymous
Softball is from the top of the heart every game you play its played by love in your heart.
― Anonymous
Four bases, three strikes, two teams, one winner. It’s not just a game, but a way of life. Softball, this is my destiny.
― Anonymous
Don’t think you’re to good to sit and root for your team, be a team player.
― Anonymous
I am who I am. I’m going to be who I am. And I’m going to give my all to the game in the way that I do it.
― Lonni Alameda
It’s a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.
― Mike Candrea
When you’re in a slump don’t lie down and take it. Remember: you’re a fighter.
― Anonymous
A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.
― Mia Hamm
The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win. It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.
― Lisa Fernandez
Worrying about past plays is such a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Know what you need to do in that moment.
― Anonymous
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
I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.
― Jennie Finch
Sometimes it feels like you’re pushing and pushing and not getting through. But there’s so much progress that can’t be seen each day.
― Anonymous
Playing fast pitch softball against me is as close to death as you’re gonna get.
― Anonymous
Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.
― Anonymous
I didn’t fall out of bed and become an Olympic champion. I worked hard, I was dedicated, and I really worked to perfect all aspects of my game.
― Michele Smith
The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.
― Anonymous
Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at at time.
― Amanda Scarborough
There is a way to play this game (softball) physically, but it’s the mental part that’s going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.
― Lisa Fernadez
Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.
― Sue Enquist
Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have.
― Ashley DeBuhr
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
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.’
― Jennie Finch
What success is can’t be defined by what other people can do. It’s your success. You define it.
― Anonymous
Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.
― Allison, West Morgan Softball
You’re going to be praised and you’re going to be criticized. Ignore both. Neither one matters.
― Anonymous
The true definition of confidence has nothing to do with other people who surround us and statistics on a sheet of paper. The only place that confidence comes is from inside YOU. Yes, you. Our confidence belongs to us, no one else.
― Anonymous
When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.
― Cat Osterman
You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
― Jennie Finch
If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven’t done anything today.
― Cat Osterman
I think an athletes mental state is what separates he goods from the greats! Being able to have a short term memory when failure hits is a taught skill and should be something that is practice daily on exactly how you as an individual handle failure. In our sport failure happens far to often so you have to perfect bouncing back fast!
― Natasha Watley
I am now, and will always be me. But when it comes time to step out onto that field, me gets a little more dedicated, a little more serious, and nobody stands in my way.
― Caitlin Sumpter
Passion is a prerequisite to winning.
― Anonymous
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
― Giselle C., Shortstop, California
You only get so much time to play the game. Play it right the first time. You don’t get a second try at life.
― Anonymous
It’s supposed to be hard, if it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.
― Anonymous
This game is about the long run. LIFE is about the long run. Pick successes that can build your confidence over time and stay in the process. There is always light at the end of the tunnel, but you can’t see the light if you fall into the trap of all the failures trying to pull you down.
― Amanda Scarborough
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
― Amanda Scarborough
It’s always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There’s never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
― Cat Osterman
Somewhere behind the athlete, behind the hours of practice, behind the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back.
― Anonymous
I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.
― Mike Candrea
ANYONE can be on a team, but NOT just anyone can be a loyal leader who people look to and who rises above all the negativity and drama.
― Anonymous
I don’t need to be Number 1 on the team. If I need to hit, pitch, run, whatever, I will do it. If everything was going to be about me, I’d quit.
― Michele Smith
The point of the game is not how well the individual does but whether the team wins. That is the beautiful part of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for group success.
― Anonymous
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
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
Even when you’ve played the game of your life, it’s the feeling of teamwork that you’ll remember. You’ll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you’ll never forget your teammates.
― Deborah Palmore
Fresh cut grass, dragged dirt, ring of a bat, a diving catch, a blocked ball, sweating, bleeding and sliding into home. Not a bad way to spend a few hours.
― Anonymous
I really didn’t have my best stuff. My drop ball was inconsistent and they had a good game plan. I stopped worrying about striking people out and just focused on getting people out.
― Cat Osterman
But I wasn’t getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.
― Cat Osterman
I do not just want to be just another face. What I want is to go out there and prove something on the field.
― Jennie Finch
It only takes one pitch to make a difference.
― Anonymous
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
― Anonymous
When I’m in the game [softball], it’s not so much mechanics. It’s more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my preparation that we’ve put in to get there. When you’re in the game, it’s go-mode. There’s going to be times when you’re tweaking things but when you’re in that game mode, you just want to think about that one next pitch.
― Jennie Finch
Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.
― Taryne Mowatt
When I step into 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 W.
As an athlete it feels so natural to stick with your strengths and never really evolve. To stay ahead of the trends, it’s so important to constantly evolve & reinvent daily to stay ahead of the curve.
― Natasha Watley
I am now, and will always be me. But when it comes time to step out onto that field, me gets a little more dedicated, a little more serious, and nobody stands in my way.
― Caitlin Sumpter
In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire’s call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don’t.
― Dot Richardson
Before you ask me why my legs are bruised, my knees are scared and my nails are broken. Realize I hit the drop ball, take the shot at home plate and swing for the fence. I don’t play with Barbie’s and I don’t jump rope. If the game were easy, I wouldn’t play. 2 teams, 4 bases, 7 innings, 1 game…FASTPITCH SOFTBALL
― Anonymous
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
― Babe Ruth
If you love that 3-2 pitch, that diving catch, the dirt in your hair, the face of your opponent and that slide into home that won the game, but also gave you one horrible bruise…then you’re a true softball player.
― Anonymous
It’s supposed to be hard, if it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.
― Anonymous
Strawberry’s always hurt less when the umpire calls you safe.
― Anonymous
Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.
― Jennie Finch
When you dive into college softball, your life is changing dramatically and you’ve got to be ready for that. It’s not easy and it’s frustrating. And there’s a lot of HARD about it. Life needs to be hard in order for you to know how to be triumphant.
― Patty Gasso
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