Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennie Finch

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

It's a game of failure [softball]. Everybody would play, that was easy and everyone's not playing because it is so tough. But it's a matter of keep plugging away, keep working hard, believing in yourself and it is a team sport and there is nothing better than being out there, having a ball in your hand, playing the game that you love and ultimately that's what it comes down is having fun and enjoying it.

Jennie Finch

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

Jennie Finch

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

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Martin Luther

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Mark Philippoussis

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

Liana Liberato

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.

Johnny Rutherford

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

Johnny Miller

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 Bench

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

Nolan Ryan

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

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.

Nora Ephron

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

Miles Teller

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Eric Schlosser

Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.

Lou Lamoriello

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.

James Madison

WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT

Joe Paterno

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

John Elway

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.

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.

Edward de Bono

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

Jimmy Connors

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

Gabrielle Reece

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

Joe Maddon

I think Daniel Murphy definitely is premeditated what he'd like to do. He's very good about not missing his pitch when he sees it. I know the ball has to look like at least a softball right now, at least, maybe more to the beach ball variety. He's seeing everything that well. He's a good hitter that is seeing the ball really well right now, and you have to make good pitches to get him out.

Mariano Rivera

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.

Manny Mota

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.

Lupe Fiasco

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

Julie Foudy

We don't wear cups. We win them!

Tommy Lasorda

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