Softball Sayings – Inspirational Or Funny Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.”
– Jordin Sparks

“I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed… When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it’s mainly softball with some friends.”
– Josh Charles

“It’s not how good you are, it’s how bad you want it.”
– K., softball player

“It’s not just any sport, it’s not just throwing a ball, hitting and running. I live with the cheering of my players while I’m up to bat. I live with the red stitches of the softball rubbing against my fingers when I snap my wrist and let it fly. I live with mistakes every day in it, and I live learning them. I live on the pitchers mound where I need complete confidence in my self. I live with snapping my wrist to the catcher and getting the batter out, a perfect strike. I live not only for my teammates, but for my self. I live for fastpitch softball.”
– K.M., pitcher

“I do well when people doubt me. When someone says I can’t do something, I want to do more. I won’t back down from anybody.”
– Kenyon Martin

“The fans can make you famous. A contract can make you rich. The press can make you a superstar. But only the love can make you a player.”
– Kevin Hartwyk

“I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.”
– Kobe Bryant

“We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says ‘Emotionally, physically, mentally — come to the field prepared.’ Because if you don’t bring that to the field, you’re going to get beat.”
– Laura Berg, outfield, Team USA

“I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.”
– Lisa Fernandez, pitcher, Team USA

“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.”
– Mackenzie Astin

“When I step into 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 W., second base, California

“The best feeling in the world is walking into an athletic atmosphere and knowing the other athletes are scared to death to compete against you.”
– Matt Hurst

“I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.”
– Mia Hamm

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan

“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

“It’s a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.”
– Mike Candrea, coach, Team USA

“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.”
– Miles Teller

“I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.”
– Nancy Lopez

“A winner never whines.”
– Paul Brown

“People always think kids’ sports are about fun. The kids have fun playing, but that’s not why they play. The real reason they play is to find out about who they are…It’s a vehicle for self-discovery.”
– Paul Clements

“(On the College World Series) It’s not about the seedings, it’s not about the bats. It’s about these 18 young ladies on each team and how bad they want to win.”
– Ralph Weekly, coach, Univ. of Tennessee

“Strive to be the best you can be…focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with ‘good enough’…and above all, love what you do–share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a ‘big head’ no matter how good you are.”
– Robby Naish

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

“Winners are born, Champions are made.”
– Scott, Hornets Softball

“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations, as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature, and quenched the spirit of immortality, which is his portion.”
– Southey

“To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”
– Steve Prefontaine

“(On being an underdog and coming from behind to win) What I love about the game is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win.”
– Sue Enquist, coach, UCLA

“Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.”
– Taryne Mowatt, pitcher, Univ. of Arizona

“I coach my daughter‘s softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.”
– Tim McGraw

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