Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
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
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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.
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.
Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.
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.
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
Put your ego aside and play as a team.
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!
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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.
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.
Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.
