Softball Quotes - Page 7

• As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.

  Libbie Hickman

  Sports, Motivation, Negative

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

  Mike Candrea

  Play, Weather

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• It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Heart, Evil

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• For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

  James Gibbons

  Sports, Motivation, Harder

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• People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.

  Alex Shaffer

  Sports, Motivation, Winning

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• 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.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Sports, Motivation, Heart

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

  Johnny Rutherford

  Sports, Motivation, Spite

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• Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

  Trevor Hoffman

  Sports, Running, Motivation

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• Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Motivation, Games

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• I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Motivation, Giving

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• My mom would never let us quit. She always taught us the importance of sticking with it, even when times are tough. We didn't just hear her, we watched her. I know what to do because she led the way. She showed us that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish the world. No matter where you're from and what you're up against.

  Theo Ratliff

  Sports, Mom, Motivation

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

  Gabrielle Reece

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

  Allen Iverson

  Sports, Motivation, Heart

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• I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  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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• 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.

  Jim Courier

  Sports, Running, Zero

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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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• Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

  Danny Villanueva

  Sports, Motivation, Giving

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• 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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• 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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• 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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