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| Softball Quotes I know there are a lot of these but they all rock so if you've got the time, you should really read through all of these. If life throws you a curve ball, at least you know you are playing the right sport. Play by the rules: Outside the white lines everyone can be your friends, but when you get in between those lines, it's war. The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. Sometimes the only thing fair in life is a ball hit between 1st and 3rd. Never be satisfied. Keep your eye on the ball, run like hell, get up when you fall down and get up fast. Softball is played mainly on a five and a half inch field, the space between your ears. Stoppin� at third base, adds no more to the score than striking out. Never under estimate the other team. If you want something go out and get it cause 95% of the time it don�t come to you. Softball, Run fast and turn left. That's all that matters! Funny thing about luck, the harder we practice the luckier we get. Practice, practice, practice, and when you get tired, practice. Always slide. When you retire the lead-off batter, the inning is half over. Softball is 10% physical and 90% mental. How you practice is how you play. Always give 110% When the game�s over, leave it on the field. If you�re here to watch, buy a ticket. If your here to play get in the game. Play the ball, don't let the ball play you. You can't steal second with one foot on first. There is nothing better than the taste of dirt in your mouth, when sliding into home for the winning run. Softball is a love-hate relationship, you have to love to win and hate to lose. Every pitch is a new battle, take one pitch at a time. Pitchers, Catchers and Hitters: We take it one pitch at a time. Don't be afraid that I'm gonna hit you, be afraid I'm gonna STRIKE YOU OUT! Pitching is like reality, location location location. I love being on the mound looking at a person with a bat 40 feet away, knowing that they can�t touch me. When you�re up to bat, just remember it�s 9 to 1. No need to be afraid. I know I�m a good pitcher, every time I step on the mound I prove it. The best feeling in the world is stepping onto the mound and knowing everyone is scared of you. Good pitching stops good hitting. Life's a pitch. I love the feeling of being on the mound and knowing that no one can hit me. That�s life�I�m a pitcher. I threw only one flat pitch and it got cranked. Anything's possible in this game. That's what makes pitching so nerve-wracking. You can throw 99 perfect pitches and the 100th is a bad one, and you get crunched. But that�s what pitching�s all about. You gotta love it. To all my catchers: Thanks girls, I wouldn�t be the pitcher I am without you! Cause after all, Great catchers make great pitchers. When I step into the batters box, I feel bad for the pitcher. I dare you to throw that ball down the middle. When I step into the batter's box, I feel sorry for the player who has to eat a yellow, 60 mile an hour ball, with a side order of dirt for lunch, when I bust it down their throat. Friends don�t leave friends stranded at 2nd. Don't be the one who wants to hit the ball, be the one who does hit the ball. Throw it over the plate, get it over the fence. Knock somebody down! Seeing a girl 40 feet away shaking in her cleats, cause she knows if she puts it any where near me its coming right back at her. That�s what its all about. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But when a pitcher hands you a change~up, smack it right down her throat. Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. Team: Together Everyone Achieves More. It's amazing what a team can accomplish when no one cares who gets the credit. Softball is an individual team sport. You�re expected to stop the ball, but if you don�t you�ve got someone behind you to back you up. A team is knowing when a ball is hit over your head, you have enough faith in the girl behind you not to turn around because you know she�s got it. Put your ego a side and play as a team. Don't think your to good to sit and root for your team, be a team player Team work is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results. Practice as a team, play as a team, win as a team. Even when you've played the game all you're life, it's the feeling of team-work you'll always remember, you'll forget the plays, the hits, and the scores but, you'll never forget you're team-mates. The power of WE, is always better than the power of me. You are only as strong as your weakest player. Play as a team. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all. Get to know your teammates as people first. If you can't relate off the field, you won't relate on the field. It�s all good� Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours. Winning isn't everything, wanting it is. I make my weaknesses my strengths, and my strengths stronger. Determination is going that extra mile when you couldn't take another step. Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. A champion is one who wants it more than others and who spends every minute of their time striving to be the best. You don�t fail if you fall, you fail if you don�t try to get up. Every once in awhile, you reach beyond what you imagined your limits to be and perform better than you thought you possibly could. Life is like softball: except the pop up, but be ready for the line drive. Hold yourself at a higher standard than anyone else expects. Never excuse yourself. All softball players have two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use: Heads you win - tails you lose. Doubt who you will, but never yourself. Don't be afraid to drop a pop, miss a scoop, over throw, or strike out. That's the only thing that can make you better. Make a mistake, fix it, and learn from it. No matter if you win or lose, you'll never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined, or focusing too much. On the field it's not me vs. them, it's me playing against myself, being the best I can be. If you do what you believe you can do, and not what others believe you can't, you've won half the battle. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Life is like a pitch, you can take what you�re given or you can let it pass you by. Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the mastery of it. A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down A coach is someone who makes you do things you don't want to do but makes you become the person you are. How someone plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows it all. Softball may be physical and mental, but without heart, it's just a hobby. Sometimes it's not how GOOD you are, it's how BAD you want it. Never under-estimate the opponent that appears weaker than you, and never fear the opponent that appears stronger than you. To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. To want what you've never achieved, you must do what you've never done. If you say you can, you can, if you say you can't, then your right. All the water in the world cannot sink the smallest ship, unless it gets inside. You know how they say almost doesn't count? Well in softball, almost does count, because if I tried my best and almost made it, I truly did accomplish something. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all. You don't have to have the lead, if you have the heart to come from behind. You will never know the great feeling that comes from winning, if you never loose. When you blame others for your mistakes, you should also be prepared to award them for your accomplishments. Set your expectations high, the more you expect, the more you will achieve. Never be SATISFIED you will always be able to do better. If better is possible then good is never enough. There is a fine line between confidence and cockiness, which side are you on? You haven't tried until you have given 110% and have done your best, then you can look at someone and truly say I have tried. If what you did yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done to much today. Fear no one, respect everyone. Offense wins games but defense wins championships. You got a name on the front of your shirt and a name on the back, what name do you play for? The only time winning comes before work is in the dictionary. Success looks easy to those who weren't around when it was being earned. All players dream, some just dream bigger than others. The little things are what win BIG games. Losers quit when there tired, but winners are tired when they quit. We are not where we should be, we are not where we want to be, we are not where we need to be, but thank God we are not where we used to be. Quitters never win, and winners never quit. You spend your life gripping a softball, then you realize it's been the other way around the whole time. You've got to get up every morning with determination, if you are going to go to bed with satisfaction. Talent is God-given, be thankful. Fame is man-given, be humble. Conceit is self-give, be careful. Champions always want the ball. The space in between the lines is where you show WHO you are, and WHAT you are made of. It�s all in the look: Softball girls are the most beautiful when they walk off the field covered in dirt, their hair plastered to their head, sweat dripping from their bodies, and victory in their eyes. Pretty and powerful, who says you can't have it all? I'd rather look bad and win, then look good and loose. Before you ask me why my legs are bruised, my knees are scared and my nails are broken. Realize I hit the drop ball, take the shot at home plate and swing for the fence. When your on the softball field worrying about what you look like, look around, you look like an idiot. Pretty girls don't play softball, so let's get ugly. Dirty: Softball players do it in the dirt�GET DIRTY!! Yeah I tell the boys I've gotten to all the bases before, they didn't believe so I told them to come to my game and watch me play. We like it DIRTY. We like it FAST. We play HARDBALL. Everyone says softball and baseball are the same things, but who plays with bigger balls? Softball girls are the best, we can do it in 9 positions. We like the balls big and soft. We stroke our balls hard and low. Just a game? Softball isn't that important in life, it's just right up there with oxygen. Softball is my life, is it yours? When it comes to FAST-PITCH SOFTBALL its not a life or death situation its WAY MORE IMPORTANT than that. You spend your life gripping a softball, then you realize it's been the other way around the whole time. Softball isn't just a game it's away of life. Whoever said softball is just a game must have never played. Softball is life, everything else is just details. Life is a game. Softball is serious. Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game. Crank it up! Tossed and turned all night, slept through my alarm clock, was late for class, completely spaced the test, broke up with my boyfriend, played fastpitch softball, not a bad day. Dedication: When you want to be the best, there is no such thing as a vacation. 4 Games, 1 Day, No Sweat. Fastpitch Softball, you gotta love it! There is no off-season, just a longer wait �til the next game. Seven days without softball, makes one weak. 1 weekend at softball tournament= $300. 1 weekend at Hotels= $200. New softball glove= $100. New cleats= $75. New bat= $150. The feeling you get when you make an amazing play, bottom of the 7th, 2 outs in the championship game= PRICELESS. Got attitude? Softball. Enough said. Softball, there ain't nothing soft about it. Throw me the ball and watch what I do with it. If you like your pretty smile, you better turn your head. If I look bruised and bloody, then you should see the team I played, if they�re still alive� Playing fast pitch softball against me is as close to death as your gonna get. There's no I in team, but there's a U in suck. If you mess with the best, you loose like the rest. To play with us, you've got to be smart. To keep up with us, you've got to be quick. But to beat us? You've got to be kidding! My friends asked me if I cried when I got this bruise. I said I only cry when I strike out. Suck it up! Just grip and rip, make the other team work if they think that they can beat you. Don�t be afraid of the ball, buy a mouthpiece and get your face in it. Don't be afraid of the ball, let the ball be afraid of you. I am not interested in the possibility of defeat. You weak throwing ball droppin� base tippin� fail hittin� three strike LOSER. Softball, now that's a REAL sport. Scars are the beauty of the game. Show them off! Losing is not an option. WARNING: The surgeon general says it's OK to smoke the competition. Be afraid, be very afraid. It doesn't matter who we're playing, it matters who they�re playing. If you think hustling is tough, try sitting on the bench. Refuse to loose. Just give me the ball and no one will get hurt. If you can�t hang with the big dawgs, get off the field! You came to play, well we came to win. Fastpitch Softball, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Take the pain in honor of the game, it only hurts for a little bit. Perfection is expected, excellence is tolerated. Wanna see commitment, just look at my scars. If you ain't dirty, and you ain't hurtin, then you weren't playin. If you�re hurt, rub some dirt on it. This is softball, you'll be fine. Fast-pitch softball, only the strong survive. If you can't take the heat, take a seat. The best thing about pain is, that it let's you know you're not dead yet. We bust ours to kick yours. Do some damage. Girls and Boys: It took man to invent the game, but women to perfect it What's the difference between baseball and softball? Girls make the game look much better. In baseball, guys have to start winning to have fun, in softball, girls have to start having fun to win. The reason guys in baseball lead off the bases before the pitch is because they�re slow. We don't wear cups, we WIN them. My boyfriend told me I had to choose between him and softball. I'm really going to miss him. How can you not love a sport where you can name an object that you hit really hard after your ex-boyfriend? Boys are great, every team needs a WATERBOY. Guys dig scars. Yes I'm a girl, yes I play softball, yes I can kick your ass. When it�s said you �throw like a girl�, it doesn�t mean what it used to. Diamonds are a girls' best friend�Softball diamonds that is. Prim and proper is for prom night, and I'm not here to dance. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of, the hell with sugar and spice. If you can't take the pain, don't play the game, it's a girl thang. Most girls say, �Oops I broke a fingernail.� Softball players say, �Oops I broke a finger.� When someone says to you, You throw like a girl, it's a compliment. You�re a girl for a reason. TO KICK ASS. I've got my daddy's eyes and my momma's arm. |
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| Catching; it's about having an 80 mph fastball hurled at your face, and you having enough guts to stick your hand out and catch it |
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