Softball Quotes - Page 6

• 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 Miller

  Sports, Motivation, Champion

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• 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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Animal, Government, Order

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

  Stan Smith

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

  Greg Norman

  Sports, Motivation, Golf

  "A giant tested to destruction" by David Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 1996.

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• I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

  Allen Iverson

  Sports, Motivation, Heart

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Sports

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• 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.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Motivation, Believe

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• 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.

  Aimee Mullins

  Sports, Motivation, Athlete

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• A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

  Dawn Staley

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Sports, Strong, Motivation

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• 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.

  Manny Mota

  Sports, Motivation, Attitude

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.

  Zak Kustok

  Sports, Motivation, Thinking

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• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Sports, Motivation, Champion

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• Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Aimee Mullins

  Sports, Jobs, Motivation

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• I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

  Charlaine Harris

  Inspirational, Daughter, Mother

  "Charlaine Harris's Vampire Empire". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. May 5, 2009.

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• Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sports, Motivation, Winning

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• It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

  Jennie Finch

  Empowering, Machines

  "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Motivation, Games

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• You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

  Mike Webster

  Sports, Motivation, Winning

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• 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

  Sports, Giving Up, Motivation

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• 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.

  Claire Carver-Dias

  Sports, Motivation, Goal

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• 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.

  Juli Inkster

  Sports, Motivation, Winning

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• Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

  Amy Ruley

  Sports, Motivation, Believe

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