List Of Softball Quotes

A Regular Wind-up Toy World This Is, I Think. Once A Day The Wind-up Bird Has To Come And Wind The Springs Of This World. Alone In This Fun House, Only I Grow Old, A Pale Softball Of Death Swelling Inside Me. Yet Even As I Sleep Somewhere Between Saturn And Uranus, Wind-up Birds Everywhere Are Busy At Work Fulfilling Their Appointed Rounds.

As I See It, A Successful Story Of Any Kind Should Be Almost Like Hypnosis: You Fascinate The Reader With Your First Sentence, Draw Them In Further With Your Second Sentence And Have Them In A Mild Trance By The Third. Then, Being Careful Not To Wake Them, You Carry Them Away Up The Back Alley Of Your Narrative And When They Are Hopelessly Lost Within The Story, Having Surrendered Themselves To It, You Do Them Terrible Violence With A Softball Bag And Then Lead Them Whimpering To The Exit On The Last Page. Believe Me, They'll Thank You For It.

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.

Everyone Is Really Afraid Of Getting Out There And Not Being Good. That's The Challenge: To Be Afraid And Know People Are Staring At You And Know You Might Not Do All That Well, But You Do It Anyway. What Singles Out The Successful Athlete From The Ones Who Never Make It Past A Plateau, It That Successful Athletes Risk Failure, Even Though They Are Terrified.

Success Isn't Winning Every Time. A Lot Of Different Factors Go Into Every Race, And You Can't Control All Of Them. Success Means Doing As Excellent A Job As You Can On That Particular Day. The People I Admire Most Aren't Necessarily The Most Wonderful Athletes. I Admire The Ones Who Keep Coming Back And Doing It, Time After Time.

I Played Little League And In High School. I Played More Over The Years Whenever There Was A Pick-up Game... Usually Softball.

I Enjoy Sports, And Love Being Involved In Any Outdoor Sport From Volleyball To Softball. I'm Not Being Immodest When I Say I'm A Natural Athlete.

You Have To Remember That No Matter How Big Your Goals Or How Many You Have, There Are Going To Be Times When You Miss By A Little Bit. You Have To Be Realistic And Flexible. One Reason I Have So Many Smaller Goals Is That Even If My Big Goals Don't Happen, I've Still Achieved So Much Along The Way, I Don't Feel The Loss.

It's Not So Much What You Accomplish In Life That Really Matters, But What You Overcome That Proves Who You Are, What You Are, And Whether You Are A Champion.

Anybody Can Be A Runner. We Were Meant To Move. We Were Meant To Run. It's The Easiest Sport.

A Pitcher Never Gets Me Out. I Get Myself Out. That's No Disrespect To The Pitcher, But There Should Be No Excuse For Failure. You Can't Have An Excuse To Fail.

The Tests Of Life Are Not To Break You But To Make You.