Motivation Quotes

"It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be."

- Richard Branson

"Put your gold money where your love is."

- The Grateful Dead

"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

- Margaret Chase Smith

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."

- Jane Smiley

"Chase your passion, not your pension."

- Denis Waitley

"Don’t let what you _cannot_ do interfere with what you _can_ do."

- John Wooden

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

"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

"Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think. Keep working. Don’t give up."

- Jennie Finch

"A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams."

- Dot Richardson

"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

"Dream big and work hard. Play with passion and the sky is the limit. Fastpitch rocks!"

- Jennie K., Catcher, Arizona

"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

"Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at at time."

- Amanda Scarborough

"The future of the world is in my classroom right now."

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"Every child deserves a champion, a grownup who never gives up on them, who recognizes the value of relationships and urges that they develop into their full potential."

- Rita Pierson

"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

"You've got this, bro. I believe in you."

- Unknown

"It’s supposed to be hard, if it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."

"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."

"Passion is a prerequisite to winning."

"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."

"If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world."

"Fair isn’t everybody getting the same thing…Fair is everybody getting what they need in order to be successful."

"Our job is to teach the kids we have. Not the ones we used to have. Not the ones we would like to have. The ones we have right now…all of them."

"See the able, not the label."