Are you looking for the best softball quotes? We have done the work of getting the most popular quotes and sayings about softball.
Whether you are searching for softball quotes for outfielders, catcher, or pitcher, our collation of the most popular softball quotes from different sources will inspire you to appreciate teamwork as a major factor to achieve success in life.
Inspirational softball quotes
The following softball positive quotes will coach you to never give up while playing this amazing sport.
- “A boy once told me that I play like a girl. I told him if he tried a little harder, he could too.” – Unknown
- “A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.” – Unknown
- “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
- “Be ready for that curveball, because you have no idea where it’s going. Not even the pitcher knows.” – Unknown
- “Bruised, bloody, broken, all for this sport. I’ll never hold back. I play it, love it, and live it. Softball, my sport, my love, my life.” – Unknown
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Giselle C., shortstop, California
- “Discipline yourself so no one has to.” – Unknown
- “Don’t think you’re too good to sit and root for your team, be a team player.” – Unknown
- “Dream big and work hard. Play with passion and the sky is the limit. Fastpitch rocks!” – Jennie K., catcher, Arizona
- “Everybody knows that pitching and defense win championships. It’s all about defense. It’s that way in pretty much every sport. So if we can pitch and play defense we have a chance at a championship. But you can also win quite a few games by hitting.” – Ehren Earleywine
- “Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.” – Carrie Underwood
- “Hey softball pitcher: be that player that coaches warn their team about.” – Unknown
- “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 grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.” – Yoenis Cespedes
- “I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.” – Lisa Fernandez
- “I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.” – Maggie Lawson
- “I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.” – Elizabeth Banks
- “I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.” – Caitlin Lowe
- “I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.” – Sue Enquist
- “I’ve faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.” – Jennie Finch
- “If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.” – George Brett
- “If it were easy, they’d call it baseball.” – Unknown
- “If what you did yesterday still looks big to you today, then you must not have done anything today.” – Unknown
- “If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.” – Unknown
- “In softball, it’s not how good you are, but how good you want to be.” – Unknown
- “It doesn’t sparkle but I guard this diamond with my life.” – Unknown
- “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 – Team USA Coach
- “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, pitcher, Team USA
- “It’s never too early to follow your dreams.” – Unknown
- “It’s so empowering to see yourself as a machine.” – Jennie Finch
- “Let your faith shine on and off the field. People are watching; this is your mission field.” – Unknown
- “Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared to run the bases.” – Sara Ann Nielsen
- “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 (see more Pat Summitt quotes)
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
- “Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.” – Allison, West Morgan Softball
- “Once I step on that field all my stress, family problems and heartache go away…” – Unknown
- “Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the name on the back.” – Unknown
- “Play the ball; don’t let the ball play you.” – Unknown
- “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Softball girls aren’t afraid of a little dirt.” – Unknown
- “Softball gives girls a chance to show the boys how it’s really done.” – 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
- “Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.” –Unknown
- “Softball is from the top of the heart every game you play its played by love in your heart.” – Unknown
- “Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up!” – Unknown
- “Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.” – Unknown
- “Softball isn’t a game it’s a way of life. We play because we love the game, not for our parents, our siblings, or to impress people by how far you.” – 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.” – Unknown
- “Softball, it’s more than just a game!” – Coach Dave, Sluggers Softball
- “Softball: Where good girls steal.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes the only thing fair in life is a ball hit between first and third.” – Unknown
- “Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal. Suck it up, Princess. This is softball.” – Unknown
- “The softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.” – Yvette Girouard
- “The Softball Pitcher’s Motto: Stay calm and throw strikes.” – Unknown
- “The strongest players are not always the team that wins, but the players who don’t give up when they lose.” – 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
- “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 Fernandez
- “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.” – Unknown
- “To play it takes talent, but to win it takes desire!” – Unknown
- “To some Softball is a game; to others it’s Life.” – Jennie Finch
- “Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.” – 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
- “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 base, Team USA
- “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
- “What I love about the game (softball) is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win.” – Sue Enquist
- “When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.” – Catherine Bell
- “When I lose, I take it very personally.” – Jennie Finch
- “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.
- “When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.” – Jennie Finch
- “When the game is over leave it on the field.” –Unknown
- “When we’d play softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.” – Woody Allen
- “Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That’s why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It’s a natural movement in softball. In baseball it’s not a natural movement.” – Jamie Moyer
- “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
- “Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.” – Jennie Finch
- “College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.” – Jennie Finch
- “Everybody knows that pitching and defense win championships. It’s all about defense. It’s that way in pretty much every sport. So if we can pitch and play defense we have a chance at a championship. But you can also win quite a few games by hitting.” – Ehren Earleywine
- “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
- “I don’t know if there’s an actors’ slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they’d have to drop it on purpose.” – Miles Teller
- “I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.” – Yoenis Cespedes
- “I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.” – Lisa Fernandez
- “I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.” – Nancy Lopez
- “I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.” – Maggie Lawson
- “I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.” – Elizabeth Banks
- “I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.” – Sue Enquist
- “If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.” – Danny Masterson
- “In softball, it’s not how good you are, but how good you want to be.” – Unknown
- “In softball, the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.” – Yvette Girouard
- “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
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Unknown
- “One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.” – Lisa Fernandez
- “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
- “Softball is for everyone. Fast-pitch is for athletes.” – Unknown
- “Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up!” – Unknown
- “Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.” – 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.” – Unknown
- “Sweat dries, blood clots, bones heal, suck it up princess. This is softball.” – Unknown
- “Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at at time.” – Amanda Scarborough
- “The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.” – George Shultz
- “The softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.” – Yvette Girouard
- “The strongest players are not always the team that wins, but the players who don’t give up when they lose.” – Unknown
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