Attitude

No matter how good your softball skills are, they won't take you all the way unless you have the right attitude.  Winning is an attitude, and it's attitude separates true champions from everyone else.  Check out our favorite sayings about attitude:

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it."  --Lou Holtz

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.  Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”  --Denis Waitley

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”  --Ralph Marston

Believe

Has your team ever pulled off a miracle? Beat that team that no one else could? Captured a championship that no one (but you) thought you could?  Then you know what it means to believe..... 

"Achieving starts with believing."  -Unknown

"I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one." -Isiah Thomas

"A man can be as great as he wants to be.  If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."  -Vince Lombardi

Playing the Game

Whether they are pitching, hitting, fielding or cheering on their teammates, softball players play their game with an intensity and dedication that is unmatched.  Here are some softball quotes from softball players and softball coaches about playing the game:
   
"There is a way to play this game physically, but it’s the mental part that’s going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze."  --Lisa Fernandez, USA

"We knew we had to fight. We have heart, and we never give up."  --Teagen Gerhart, Stanford

"[I]f you swing at strikes, they aren’t going to get you out.  If you swing at pitcher pitches, they are probably going to get you out." -- Patrick Murphy, Alabama

"That’s part of fast pitch softball, being able to move runners and execute the short game.  It’s a very quick game.  Sixty feet, you bobble it once, and these kids are going to be safe. You have to play quick, but you can’t be in a hurry."  --John Rittman, Stanford

"This game is a game of inches. Sometimes they are going to go our way, and sometimes they aren’t."  --Ashley Hansen, Stanford (on dribblers)