Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yvette Girouard

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

Yvette Girouard

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

Trevor Hoffman

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

Evander Holyfield

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.

Lisa Fernandez

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.

Lisa Fernandez

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.

Les Brown

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Larry Bird

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

Thom Yorke

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.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Retief Goosen

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Ruben Studdard

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Rose Leslie

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

Troy Vincent

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

Troy Polamalu

I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

Troy Polamalu

I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.

Lisa Bluder

Hopefully, the team used it as motivation throughout the summer,

Robert Collier

Mind is all that counts.

Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Richard P. Feynman

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

Ronaldinho

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.