“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

“Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.”

– Sue Enquist

“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.”

– Laura Berg

”Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.” – Unknown

”Softball has given me so much in life. It’s taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.” – Jennie Finch

”We play this game (softball) 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.” – Laura Berg

”Softball: Where good girls steal.” – Unknown

”Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Unknown

”Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up!” – Unknown

 ”The softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.” – Yvette Girouard

”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 played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.” – Elizabeth Banks

”I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.” – Maggie Lawson

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

”Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.” – Allison, West Morgan Softball

”Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“We play softball, but we ain’t going soft on you.”- Unknown

“Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.” – Yvette Girouard

“Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think. Keep working. Don’t give up.” – Jennie Finch

“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

“Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.” – Sue Enquist

“Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at at time.” – Amanda Scarborough

“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

“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

“When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.” – Cat Osterman

“If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven’t done anything today.” – Cat Osterman

“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

“What success is can’t be defined by what other people can do. It’s your success. You define it.”

– Unknown

“Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.”

– Allison, West Morgan Softball

“Worrying about past plays is such a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Know what you need to do in that moment.”

– Unknown

“You’re going to be praised and you’re going to be criticized. Ignore both. Neither one matters.”

– Unknown

“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

“A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.”

– Unknown

“When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.”

– Cat Osterman

“The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”

– Unknown

“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

Softball Players: Real women with curves, fastballs, and changeups.
Unknown

If I had a boyfriend who told me to choose between him and softball… he’s sure going to miss me.
Unknown

I have to save money…oh, look, a new softball bat!
Unknown

I came to blow bubbles and whoop the other team, and I’m all out of gum.
Unknown

Softball: It doesn’t get easier. You just get better.
Unknown

Technically, it’s not stealing, as I own this field.
Unknown

Don’t practice till you get it right. Practice till you can’t get it wrong.
Unknown

Who needs umpires when we have softball moms?
Unknown

You earn your trophies at practice. You pick them up at tournaments.
Unknown

Be that player their coach warned them about.
Unknown

Softball isn’t a one woman sport, there’s 11 other girls who become your sisters. And don’t forget that you win as a team and lose as a team.

“When we’d play softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.” — Woody Allen

“College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.” — Jennie Finch

“I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.” — Nancy Lopez

“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.” — George Shultz

“When the source is a story. That’s a softball question.” — Michael Wolff

“Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.” — George Steinbrener

“If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.” — Danny Masterson

“Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don’t think so? Just ask a softball Mom.” — Mary Roach.

Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.”

“Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at a time.” – Amanda Scarborough

“Softball: Where good girls steal.”

“Softball is not for softies.”

“Some call them opponents, I call them victims.”

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

“It doesn’t sparkle but I guard this diamond with my life.”

“Sweat dries, blood clots, bones heal, suck it up princess. This is softball.”

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” –  Vince Lombardi

“In softball, it’s not how good you are, but how good you want to be.”

“When we’d play softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.” – Woody Allen

“If ur dating a softball player raise your hands, If ur NOT raise ur standards.”

“When the game is over leave it on the field.”

“Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.” – Sue Enquist

“I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.” – Lisa Fernandez

“College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.” – Jennie Finch

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference…”

“It’s not how you start; it’s how you finish.”

“A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.”

“I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.” – Nancy Lopez

“The pain won’t last forever, but the memories will.”

“If you don’t play fast-pitch, don’t say you play softball.”

“I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.” – Elizabeth Banks

“As teammates, we are always there for one another … everyone has everyone’s back.” – Whitney Barrett

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi

“Play every softball game like it is your last!”

“Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from the playing game.”

“To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine

“It’s never too early to follow your dreams.”

“Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up!”

“If what you did yesterday still looks big to you today, then you must not have done anything today.”

“Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the name on the back.”

“Practice makes progress.”

“Don’t practice until you get it right, Practice until you can’t get it wrong.”

“Softball gives girls a chance to show the boys how it’s really done.”

“Faith. Love. Softball.”

“Softball goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.”

“Look like a beauty, play like a beast.”

“Play the game you love, and love the game you play!”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Forget the glass slippers, this princess wears cleats.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” – John Wooden

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

“Hard is when it matters; when you’re tired is when it counts.”

“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

“Life’s a pitch.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
–George Herman “Babe” Ruth

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
–Hank Aaron

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
–Elbert Hubbard

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
–Will Rogers

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
–Unknown

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
–Anonymous

“The harder you train, the easier the game.”

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.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty. ― Timothy Keller

Worrying about past plays is such a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Know what you need to do in that moment.

When you’re in a slump don’t lie down and take it. Remember: you’re a fighter.

Sometimes it feels like you’re pushing and pushing and not getting through. But theres so much progress that cant be seen each day.

You can be who they tell you to be or become who you’re meant to be.

You’re going to be praised and you’re going to be criticized. Ignore both. Neither one matters.

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.

You spend your whole life gripping a softball and you realize its been gripping you too.

Sometimes the only thing fair in life is the hit between the foul lines. And sometimes that’s all you need.