Softball Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Motivation, Disrespect

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• 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.

  Marion Jones

  Sports, Motivation, Years

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• If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Powerful, Forever

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• We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Religion, Afternoon

  Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976

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• It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Incredibles

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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Time

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• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  O. J. Simpson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  Gabrielle Union

  Inspirational, Basketball, Soccer

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• High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

  Michael Powers

  Success, Sports, Life Lesson

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• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Spring, Sleep

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Loss

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• Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Games, Bottles

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• To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

  John Cheever

  Baseball, Play, Swim

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• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

  Bonnie Blair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

  Misty Hyman

  Sports, Motivation, Wrestling

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• Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

  Dwight Howard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yesterday

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

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Focus

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• 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.

  Thom Yorke

  Baby, Children, Play

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Sports, Motivation, Hate

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• If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

  Bruce Bochy

  Sports, Motivation, Preparation

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• The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Motivation, Goal

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