Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Paterno

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

John Elway

A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

Layne Beachley

Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

Lisa Fernandez

One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.

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.

Lisa Fernandez

We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.

Lisa Fernandez

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

Jimmy Connors

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

Lou Lamoriello

You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.

Venus Williams

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.

Sonny Bono

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Robert Falcon Scott

Winners are born, Champions are made.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too

Tom Seaver

Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

Tom Seaver

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

Tom Seaver

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

Terry Bradshaw

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

James Madison

WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT

Trevor Hoffman

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

Maggie Lawson

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

Mackenzie Astin

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.

Haruki Murakami

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.

Sandy Koufax

It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

Yoenis Cespedes

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

Woody Allen

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

W. P. Kinsella

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

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.