Softball quotes are a great way to motivate, inspire, and encourage players to strive for their goals on the field. Softball is a team sport that requires commitment and dedication from each individual player. Quotes that focus on teamwork, positive thinking, and hard work can help to remind players of the importance of working together and giving their all each game. Here are some of the best softball quotes that can help to inspire and motivate your team to success.
“Softball is not just a sport, it’s a way of life.” This quote emphasizes the importance of dedicating yourself to the sport and putting in the effort to become the best that you can be. It emphasizes that softball is more than just a game, but a lifestyle that requires passion and commitment.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” This quote helps to remind players that even when something feels difficult, it is important to take the risk and try anyway. Taking chances and trying new things can lead to great rewards and success.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” This quote encourages players to keep going even when times are tough and to never give up. It reminds them that failure is part of the process and that success can be achieved with perseverance.
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” This quote emphasizes the importance of preparation and hard work. It reminds players that if they put in the time and effort, they have a much higher chance of achieving success.
“Softball is a game of inches.” This quote emphasizes the importance of paying attention to details and making sure to give each play your full effort. Every inch can make the difference between success and failure.
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” This quote reminds players that each individual is important and that working together as a team is the key to success.
We hope that these softball quotes have inspired and motivated your team to work hard and reach their goals. Remember that hard work and dedication are key components to success, and that each individual on the team is important. With the right attitude and focus, your team can achieve great things.
“A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.”
Dot Richardson
“A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.”
Unknown
“And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, ‘If you want it bad enough, and you’re willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first, you have to believe in yourself.’”
Jennie Finch
“ANYONE can be on a team, but NOT just anyone can be a loyal leader who people look to and who rises above all the negativity and drama.”
Unknown
“Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.”
Sue Enquist
“As an athlete it feels so natural to stick with your strengths and never really evolve. To stay ahead of the trends, it’s so important to constantly evolve & reinvent daily to stay ahead of the curve.”
Natasha Watley
“Be that pitcher that every hitter is afraid to face.”
Unknown
“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. I don’t play with Barbie’s and I don’t jump rope. If the game were easy, I wouldn’t play. 2 teams, 4 bases, 7 innings, 1 game…FASTPITCH SOFTBALL”
Unknown
“But I wasn’t getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.”
Cat Osterman
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Giselle C., Shortstop, California
“Don’t think you’re to good to sit and root for your team, be a team player.”
Unknown
“Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think. Keep working. Don’t give up.”
Jennie Finch
“Dream big and work hard. Play with passion and the sky is the limit. Fastpitch rocks!”
Jennie K., Catcher, Arizona
“Even when you’ve played the game of your life, it’s the feeling of teamwork that you’ll remember. You’ll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you’ll never forget your teammates.”
Deborah Palmore
“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, University of Arizona
“Four bases, three strikes, two teams, one winner. It’s not just a game, but a way of life. Softball, this is my destiny.”
Unknown
“Fresh cut grass, dragged dirt, ring of a bat, a diving catch, a blocked ball, sweating, bleeding and sliding into home. Not a bad way to spend a few hours.”
Unknown
“Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have.”
Ashley DeBuhr
“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”
Unknown
“I am now, and will always be me. But when it comes time to step out onto that field, me gets a little more dedicated, a little more serious, and nobody stands in my way.”
Caitlin Sumpter
“I am now, and will always be me. But when it comes time to step out onto that field, me gets a little more dedicated, a little more serious, and nobody stands in my way.”
Caitlin Sumpter, Catcher, Kansas
“I am who I am. I’m going to be who I am. And I’m going to give my all to the game in the way that I do it.”
Lonni Alameda
“I didn’t fall out of bed and become an Olympic champion. I worked hard, I was dedicated, and I really worked to perfect all aspects of my game.”
Michele Smith
“I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.”
Jennie Finch
“I do not just want to be just another face. What I want is to go out there and prove something on the field.”
Jennie Finch
“I don’t need to be Number 1 on the team. If I need to hit, pitch, run, whatever, I will do it. If everything was going to be about me, I’d quit.”
Michele Smith
“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball I want someone to go chase it.”
Unknown
“I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.”
Lisa Fernandez
“I really didn’t have my best stuff. My drop ball was inconsistent and they had a good game plan. I stopped worrying about striking people out and just focused on getting people out.”
Cat Osterman
“I think an athletes mental state is what separates he goods from the greats! Being able to have a short term memory when failure hits is a taught skill and should be something that is practice daily on exactly how you as an individual handle failure. In our sport failure happens far to often so you have to perfect bouncing back fast!”
Natasha Watley
“I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.”
Mike Candrea
“I’m not exceptionally fast or overly powerful._ But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.”
Dot Richardson
“If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven’t done anything today.”
Cat Osterman
“If you love that 3-2 pitch, that diving catch, the dirt in your hair, the face of your opponent and that slide into home that won the game, but also gave you one horrible bruise…then you’re a true softball player.”
Unknown
“In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire’s call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don’t.”
Dot Richardson
“It only takes one pitch to make a difference.”
Unknown
“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
“It’s always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There’s never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.”
Cat Osterman
“It’s supposed to be hard, if it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”
Unknown
“It’s supposed to be hard, if it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”
Unknown
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
Babe Ruth
“Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.”
Allison, West Morgan Softball
“Passion creates work ethic. Work ethic creates possibilities. Possibilities create happiness.”
Unknown
“Passion is a prerequisite to winning.”
Unknown
“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”
Unknown
“Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the name on the back.”
Unknown
“Playing fast pitch softball against me is as close to death as you’re gonna get.”
Unknown
“Softball goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.”
Unknown
“Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.”
Unknown
“Sometimes it feels like you’re pushing and pushing and not getting through. But there’s so much progress that can’t be seen each day.”
Unknown
“Somewhere behind the athlete, behind the hours of practice, behind the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back.”
Unknown
“Strawberry’s always hurt less when the umpire calls you safe.”
Unknown
“Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at at time.”
Amanda Scarborough
“The game begins the moment you forget you’re playing.”
Unknown
“The pitcher’s mound is a place where I can feel powerful, confident and in control.”
Unknown
“The point of the game is not how well the individual does but whether the team wins. That is the beautiful part of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for group success.”
Unknown
“The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”
Unknown
“The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win._ It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.”
Lisa Fernandez
“The true definition of confidence has nothing to do with other people who surround us and statistics on a sheet of paper. The only place that confidence comes is from inside YOU. Yes, you. Our confidence belongs to us, no one else.”
Unknown
“There is a way to play this game (softball) physically, but it’s the mental part that’s going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.”
Lisa Fernadez
“This game is about the long run. LIFE is about the long run. Pick successes that can build your confidence over time and stay in the process. There is always light at the end of the tunnel, but you can’t see the light if you fall into the trap of all the failures trying to pull you down.”
Amanda Scarborough
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”
Amanda Scarborough
“Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!”
Jennie Finch
“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.”
“We’re going to step on the field knowing that every team we’re going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn’t seen. … We’ve just got to be ready to step up with them”
Crystl Bustos, Third Basemen, Team USA
“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
“What I love about the game is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win.”
Sue Enquist
“What success is can’t be defined by what other people can do. It’s your success. You define it.”
Unknown
“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.
“When I’m in the game [softball], it’s not so much mechanics. It’s more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my preparation that we’ve put in to get there. When you’re in the game, it’s go-mode. There’s going to be times when you’re tweaking things but when you’re in that game mode, you just want to think about that one next pitch.”
Jennie Finch
“When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.”
Cat Osterman
“When you’re in a slump don’t lie down and take it. Remember: you’re a fighter.”
Unknown
“Worrying about past plays is such a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Know what you need to do in that moment.”
Unknown
“You can’t always control the circumstances
only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.”
“You only get so much time to play the game. Play it right the first time. You don’t get a second try at life.”
Unknown
“You’re going to be praised and you’re going to be criticized. Ignore both. Neither one matters.”
Unknown
A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
Dot Richardson
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again.
Pat Summit
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
Pat Summitt
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
Pat Summitt
Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.
Sue Enquist
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
Pat Summitt
Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It’s that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.
Pat Summitt
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece.
John Wooden
By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could — like running the track after a two-hour practice — you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
Pat Summitt
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
Pat Summitt
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
Every year I make a commitment to try to beat myself. So whatever number I got or however many hits I got, I try to beat myself and become better.
Alexxis “Chip” Bennett
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
Pat Summitt
I am who I am. I’m going to be who I am. And I’m going to give my all to the game in the way that I do it.
Lonni Alameda
I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
Jennie Finch
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King
I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.
Sue Enquist
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
Pat Summitt
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven’t done anything today.
Cat Osterman
It’s always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There’s never an absolute 100 percent performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
Cat Osterman
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.
Stewart Emery
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
Pat Summitt
Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile — it’s free!
Jennie Finch
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
Pat Summitt
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
Pat Summitt
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Pat Summitt
Success is a project that’s always under construction.
Pat Summitt
Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
John Wooden
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
Pat Summitt
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
Pat Summitt
The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win. It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.
Lisa Fernandez
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
Pat Summitt
The worst thing a coach can do is to develop a philosophy and spend their entire career defending that philosophy.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
Jennie Finch
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
We have to continue to grow to learn how to get to each and every player. If I can learn to communicate in different ways, then I can become a better coach to 23 players.
Lonni Alameda
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
What I love about the game is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win.
Sue Enquist
What you put into it is what you get out of it.
Keilani Ricketts
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
John Wooden
When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
Pat Summitt
When you dive into college softball, your life is changing dramatically and you’ve got to be ready for that. It’s not easy and it’s frustrating. And there’s a lot of HARD about it. Life needs to be hard in order for you to know how to be triumphant.
Patty Gasso
When you’re in the box, be in the box.
Ken Ravizza
You can make yourself miserable or you can make yourself strong. The amount of work is the same.
Andrea Duran
You can’t always control the circumstances — only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
Jennie Finch
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
In conclusion, softball quotes provide an opportunity to reflect on the game and its values. Whether you are a coach, player, or fan, these quotes can help you appreciate the value of the game and the hard work it takes to be successful. Whether it’s to motivate yourself or your team, or to remember the joys of the game, these quotes can be a source of inspiration. Take a moment to reflect on the wisdom of the game and the lessons it teaches.