Quotes on Softball

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.