Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Lawson

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

Mackenzie Astin

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.

Haruki Murakami

A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

Lupe Fiasco

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

Juli Inkster

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.

Josh Charles

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.

Paul Arden

It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be

Muhammad Ali

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.

Mike Candrea

It's not the most conducive weather to play softball in, but you've got to come out and play it.

Mike Candrea

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

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

Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Mike Piazza

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.

Joe Morgan

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.

Joe Namath

When you win, nothing hurts.

Michael Jordan

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.

Mia Hamm

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

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

Mary Roach

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

Marion Jones

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.

George Vecsey

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 P. Shultz

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

Edward de Bono

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Julie Foudy

We don't wear cups. We win them!

Larry Bird

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.

Thom Yorke

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

Terry Bradshaw

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.

Robert Falcon Scott

Winners are born, Champions are made.

Yoenis Cespedes

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

Woody Allen

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.

Yvette Girouard

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

Yvette Girouard

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.