Top Softball Quotes Collection
Discover a curated collection of Softball quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.
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.Collection: Softball
Put your ego aside and play as a team.Collection: Softball
Winners are born, Champions are made.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.Collection: Softball
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.Collection: Softball
You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.Collection: Softball
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.Collection: Softball
I am a winner. I just didn't win today.Collection: Softball
You expect success, you respect failure.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.Collection: Softball
I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.Collection: Softball
You have to remember that no matter how big your goals or how many you have, there are going to be times when you miss by a little bit. You have to be realistic and flexible. One reason I have so many smaller goals is that even if my big goals don't happen, I've still achieved so much along the way, I don't feel the loss.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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!Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.Collection: Softball
I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.Collection: Softball
As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.Collection: Softball
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.Collection: Softball
I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.Collection: Softball
I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
It's not the most conducive weather to play softball in, but you've got to come out and play it.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with meCollection: Softball
Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.Collection: Softball
You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.Collection: Softball
The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really comfortable with being uncomfortable. So that's why I played pro men's hockey, that's why I played softball and hockey at the same time, that's why I'm not afraid to speak up - that's just who I am.Collection: Softball
Genius is perseverance in disguise.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Softball
We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.Collection: Softball
There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.Collection: Softball
One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.Collection: Softball
[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.Collection: Softball