FAVORITE QUOTES

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"Eat. Sleep. Play Softball."

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." ~ Michael Jordan

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
- Stevie Wonder

"You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."
- A.L. Williams

"There's no such thing as bad weather just soft people."
~ Bill Bowerman

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

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...do the thing you think you cannot do."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."
~ Muhammad Ali

"All the so-called 'secrets of success' will not work unless you do."
~Author Unknown

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."  ~ Larry Bird

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
 ~Thomas Jefferson

 "Some people dream of success…while others wake up and work hard at it.” - Unknown

"Greatness is a common thing, found in common people from common places, who simply do uncommon things." - Unknown

“Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success." - Unknown

“Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow." - Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." - Charles R. Swindoll

“Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already." - Norman Vincent Peale

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." - Larry Bird

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson

“We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless."  - Christopher Reeve

“You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

“Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile - it's free." - Jennie Finch

Submitted by: Karstan
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Submitted by: John Gay
“We are sometimes faced
with wonderful and glorious opportunities
cleverly disguised
as impossible situations."
- Unknown

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Liane Cordes

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." - Mia Hamm

"It's not how good you are, it's how bad you want it." - Unknown

Thank you Jaime!
“When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet them (s)he will win.” - Ed Macauley

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

"Forget about style; worry about results." - Bobby Orr

"You're obviously suffering from delusions of adequacy." - Alexis Carrington

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." - Henry C. Link 

"You are only as good as you think you are."

"We're prepared,and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about it."
- Lisa Fernandez, pitcher, Team USA

In memory of Coach Wooden, a man of great character.
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
- John Wooden


"In the long run, people hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high." - Henry David Thoreau

"If you're not watching, you're not getting better." - Coach Sarg

Submitted by: Beth

"It's not how GOOD you are, it's how GOOD you want to be." - Paul Arden

"Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game,
and then you forget the rules and play from your heart." - Unknown

"Associate with people you admire and can learn from." - The One Minute Entrepreneur

"Fall seven times. Get up eight." - Asian proverb

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up." - unknown

"For most people, it's not what they are that holds them back. It's what they think they are not." - John Maxwell, author of Becoming a Person of Influence

"You can only be as good as your vision, set your vision high." - unknown

"Success is peace of mind in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out."
- From Wooden on Leadership

Submitted By: Kristen
"It is not for the easy or convenient life for which I search - but rather life lived to the edge of all my possibility." - Maryanne Radmarcher-Hershey

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible." - Unknown


“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst...a spark that creates extraordinary results."

- Unknown


“You can only be as good as your vision, set your vision high!” - Unknown


"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...Do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“A coach is someone who makes you do what you don’t want to do so you can be who you always wanted to be.” -Tom Landry, former Head Coach Dallas Cowboys

"None of us is as good as all of us." - Ray Kroc

"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." - SEAL Team saying

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” - Sven Goran Eriksson

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."  ~ Larry Bird
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
~ Vince Lombardi

"Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?" 
~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

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

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
-- Unknown

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
--Vince Lombardi

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.
The hard... is what makes it great."
- A League of Their Own

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."
- Margaret Carty quotes

"Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams."
- Unknown

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

"Sometimes the player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team."  ~ Scottie Pippen

"You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do."  ~ David Packard

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right."
- Edward C. Simmons

“The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders."
- Vince Lombardi

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
- Albert Einstein

THANKS AMANDA!
"Winning isn't everything, but making the effort to win is."
~ Vince Lombardi
 
"It's not the will to win that matters, everyone has that.
It's the will to prepare to win that counts."
~ Unknown

"The key to change...is to let go of fear."
~ Rosanne Cash

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
 may also be only the beginning. "
~ Ivy Baker Priest

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."  ~ Larry Bird

Submitted by: Paul
"Great will is worth more than smarts and skill."
"Find a way."
- Merril Hoge