Softball Quotes - Page 3

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

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

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

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

Genius is perseverance in disguise.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

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.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

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

I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.

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.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

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

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

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.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.