Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.
In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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'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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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