Softball Quotes - Page 3

• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• 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.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

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• 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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• 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.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Player

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• 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.

  Billie Jean King

  Passion, Winning, Sight

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Apr 20, 2010

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• Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Success, Football

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• 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.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Games, Play, Gold

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• When I step into the 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Cheer, Winning, Battle

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• 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.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Nora Ephron

  Play, Legs, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it

  Hannah

  Cheer, Team, Names

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• Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

  Jennie Finch

  Shining, Trying, Lost

  "How Jennie Finch Stays in Pro-Athlete Form". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Inspirational, Sports, Teamwork

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• 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.

  Tom Seaver

  Sports, Motivation, Sight

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• It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

  Chelsea Handler

  Team, Gay, Want

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• 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.

  Jennie Finch

  Country, Growing Up, Thinking

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• It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from. And something Francis Ford Coppola said when we were doing the movie was, "If you learn something about people when you do dinner with them every week, you'll learn a lot more if you play softball with them every week." This is us learning what the climate is creatively among us.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Successful, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Maggie Lawson

  Baseball, Brother, Growing Up

  "James Caan, Maggie Lawson Chat New ABC Comedy BACK IN THE GAME". Caryn Robbins, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Looks, Obstacles, Fence

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

  Yvette Girouard

  Sports, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• 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

  Inspirational, Team, Games

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• I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Basketball, Girl, Strong

  "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 17, 2012.

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