Zizzer Softball Quotes

In softball ... , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season. ~ Yvette Girouard

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. ~ Mary Roach

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

[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend. ~ Yvonne Zipter

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life. ~ Kevin Kelly

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball. ~ LeBron James

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg. ~ Nora Ephron

We actually had a Kansa band softball team. ~ Phil Ehart

Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible. ~ Jennie Finch

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious. ~ Josh Holloway

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. ~ Danny Masterson

Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things. ~ Yvonne Zipter

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

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game ... usually softball. ~ Matthew Modine

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher. ~ Chelsea Handler

Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday. ~ Adam Graham

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

It's not the most conducive weather to play softball in, but you've got to come out and play it. ~ Mike Candrea

The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for. ~ Jay Leno

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. ~ Dr. Seuss

We go out and work hard. 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

I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left. ~ Elana Meyers

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. ~ George W. Bush

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. ~ Aimee Mullins

Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players. ~ George Steinbrenner

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me. ~ Yoenis Cespedes

When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it ~ Hannah

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too. ~ Natalie Grant

It's not how good you are. It's how bad you want it. ~ Paul The Apostle

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader. ~ Carrie Underwood

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. ~ Charlaine Harris

Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy! ~ Chris Jericho

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

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats. ~ Dave Barry

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. ~ Woody Allen

I love the summer ... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water ... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat. ~ James Madison

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come. ~ Jennie Finch

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. ~ Ginger Rogers

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts. ~ JWoww

I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian. ~ Elana Meyers

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ~ Kobe Bryant

Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well. ~ Frank Minis Johnson

A tie is like kissing your sister. ~ Duffy Daugherty

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister! ~ Bear Bryant

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day. ~ Allen Iverson

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear. ~ Johnny Rutherford

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

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. ~ Haruki Murakami

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

I am a winner. I just didn't win today. ~ Greg Norman

To live up to its name, softball should be played with a human testicle. ~ Jarod Kintz

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life. ~ Jennie Finch

I could have never dreamed what an amazing ride this has been. ~ Jennie Finch

When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up. ~ Tim Walters

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker. ~ Lupe Fiasco

WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT ~ James Madison

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general. ~ Jennie Finch

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there ~ James Gibbons

You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own. ~ Andrea Jaeger

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be. ~ Anson Dorrance

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. ~ Bill Walsh

We don't wear cups. We win them! ~ Julie Foudy

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

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident. ~ Gregory Benford

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile. ~ Stan Smith

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. ~ Nolan Ryan

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

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready. ~ Greg Maddux

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest. ~ Jennie Finch

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win. ~ Judy Johnson

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts. ~ Brandi Chastain

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes. ~ Thom Yorke

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball. ~ Maggie Lawson

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me! ~ Jimmy Connors

When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball. ~ Paula Creamer

The only real failure in life is the failure to try. ~ Sven-Goran Eriksson

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ~ Arnold Bennett

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. ~ V.E Schwab

Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs. ~ James Carville

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

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones. ~ Butch Harmon

Perfection does not exist
you can always do better and you can always grow. ~ Les Brown

Charlie's soul. It was odd to have this realization in front of a bunch of strangers, her softball team, and under a scorching hot spotlight, but for Ava, Charlie would try. She would ~ Harper Bliss

I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me. ~ John Welter

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it. ~ Elizabeth Banks

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. ~ Johnny Bench

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back. ~ Danny Villanueva

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome. ~ Mike Webster

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed ... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. ~ Josh Charles

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. ~ Jasmine Tookes

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability. ~ Terry Bradshaw

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best. ~ Muhammad Ali

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out. ~ Kerri Strug

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~ Bill Veeck

It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be ~ Paul Arden

You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger! ~ Shannon MacMillan

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

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks. ~ Amy Van Dyken