Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Softball Quotes to Ignite Your Passion

"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

"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

"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

"Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work."

- Pat Summitt

"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

"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

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game"

- Babe Ruth

"Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself."

- Pat Summitt

"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

"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

"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

"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 Summitt

"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 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

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"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

"The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together."

- Lisa Fernandez

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation."

- Sue Enquist

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"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

"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."

- Billie Jean King

"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

"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

"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

"Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile -- it's free!"

- Jennie Finch

"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

"Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough."

- Pat Summitt

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

- Cat Osterman

"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

"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

"Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have."

- Pat Summitt

"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

"Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?"

- Pat Summitt

"Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!"

- Jennie Finch

"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

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

- Jennie K., Catcher, Arizona

"The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win. It’s the team with the athletes who play best together."

- Lisa Fernandez

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Dot Richardson

"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

"What I love about the game is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win."

- Sue Enquist

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams."

- Allison, West Morgan Softball

"If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven’t done anything today."

- Cat Osterman

"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

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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.

"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

"What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win."

- Sue Enquist

"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

"If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today."

- Cat Osterman

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

- John Wooden

"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

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

- John Wooden

"The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything."

- Pat Summitt

"Success is a project that's always under construction."

- Pat Summitt

"I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time."

- Jennie Finch

"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

"Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits."

- Stewart Emery

"What you put into it is what you get out of it."

- Keilani Ricketts

"You can make yourself miserable or you can make yourself strong. The amount of work is the same."

- Andrea Duran

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"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

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

- John Wooden

"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."

- John Wooden

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

- Sandy Koufax

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."

- Warren Spahn

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

- John Wooden

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"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."

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

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

"Softball goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance."

"Passion is a prerequisite to winning."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Don’t think you’re to good to sit and root for your team, be a team player."

"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"

"Passion creates work ethic. Work ethic creates possibilities. Possibilities create happiness."

"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."

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

"Be that pitcher that every hitter is afraid to face."

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

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

"Playing fast pitch softball against me is as close to death as you’re gonna get."

"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."

"I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball I want someone to go chase it."

"The pitcher’s mound is a place where I can feel powerful, confident and in control."

"It only takes one pitch to make a difference."

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

"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."

"Four bases, three strikes, two teams, one winner. It’s not just a game, but a way of life. Softball, this is my destiny."

"Strawberry’s always hurt less when the umpire calls you safe."

"The game begins the moment you forget you’re playing."

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

"Be yourself."