Quotes about Softball

They bring a passion for softball you don't find in a lot of kids. They live for it.

Dawn Rowe

It's probably something she's been playing with the whole season. It's been bothering her and she got it looked at. She's basically been playing on one leg the whole season. It's the same leg she broke in softball last year. She broke the fibula then and now it's the tibia.

Brian Blume

It's about softball, ... How as the guys get older and the relationships change, and softball is the only thing keeping them together.

Artie Lange

To be perfectly honest, no knock on my girls, just give all the credit to Lancaster. We haven't figured her out for 14 innings now. We didn't get enough lead-off hits, we didn't get enough girls in scoring position with less than two outs; we just didn't do enough things to win a softball game tonight.

Jeremy Howard

When my girls believe they're capable of winning in softball, we will be able to compete for a title. Teams aren't throwing their No. 3 pitcher against us anymore for a reason.

Sandy Lazzaroni

I almost didn't come back [for my senior year]. But I realized I don't hate the game of softball.

Jenny Dobbertin

I definitely think I have a good softball background.

Brooke Brodersen

I'm still not satisfied. Coaching appointments aren't supposed to be made in November. They are made in May and Mr. Bell was good enough to coach (modified) softball this spring.

Kirk Butryn

I think that gave us confidence that we could win titles despite our age. It was motivation for us to get it done in soccer, not just softball. It kicked off a little friendly competition between our sports. It was motivation to try and get in there and be able to do that for our sport as well. Jessica was a big part of that.

Peter Stogsdill

We're just looking to play some good softball. .500 is not within reach, but we're going to try to play our game and take a couple.

Annie Kinsey

Never in my 20 years of coaching this sport have I had one player - let alone two - taken from a field via ambulance. The most painful, emotional night in my softball life.

Rick Hohenthaner

You've got to give her credit for getting softball into the SEC. You can't deny her that. She's always going to be remembered as the starter of SEC softball as far as I'm concerned.

Megan Matthews

Candace plays softball right down the street from where we live, so I anticipate us staying in touch.

Bert Weiss

It's very difficult to get two coaches to agree to allow athletes to do something like this before many reasons with the injury factor being probably the biggest. Todd probably has a harder time sharing them with me right now because it's softball girls who are helping me, but maybe in the future the roles will be reversed.

Jay Mathy

I think it scares a couple of us. We were around when softball was made an Olympic sport, and we were so happy. It's just something you've always got to worry about.

Katie King

Hopefully, the league becomes bigger. I really think that [the Philadelphia area] is a good place to have a fan base. Softball is known for being really big in California, but there really is a huge interest in softball now in our area. So hopefully we can get kids to come out and watch, and the whole thing will grow.

Jaime Dacey

This is Baldwin softball. There are rocks on this field and it is in a valley, but there is also tradition here.

Vince Sortino

We have a really strong core group of players from local teams that came together. This is one of the better high school softball areas in the state. There's that many more people available to be better interested in the program.

Bill Worsham

This is their job. They do softball six days a week. My biggest thing I'm trying to do is get them motivated to play. They don't know who Nevada is, they just know they're in America.

Michael Bastian

Bob told me that had he known playing softball would be so much fun, that he would have retired much sooner to enjoy playing the game.

Jerry Walker

She is just the hardest working kid. She always played as hard as she could, whether we were up or down. She's a great student ? 4.0 ? and was academic all-state. She's going to Utah State to play softball.

Jace Hymas

We played good fundamental softball. We took advantage of their passed balls in both the innings when we scored runs.

Dave Mills

The competitive equity around the country has really grown. I think it's still pretty common knowledge that the hotbed is still out on the West Coast, but there are really good softball players coming from all over the country now.

Linda Kalafatis

I played basketball and softball in high school. I didn't know much about volleyball until my daughter got involved. My son used to always play football and basketball. He didn't get started playing volleyball until the ninth grade.

Gina Trinsey

I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball season was going to start. It was the fall, and he had a couple seasons to go. I told him what I knew about it, and he wanted to know where he could get the information. Then he told me he was calling from overseas.

Linda Watson

I saw the opportunity to do something for the entire city, not just a softball program, but also a place where girls can take pride in the sport, a healthy lifestyle and promoting the city through sports.

Carole Bridges

There was really nobody in house that wanted to take it. And instead of advertising outside I decided that I would like to do it. Baseball and softball are my love.

Jeff Talbott

I am proud of all of my kids. This was a heck of a softball game, and give St. C. credit because they are much improved from when we played them early in the season, but I am happy with how we fought back twice.

Don Bethel

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

Ron Robson

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Rich Kaelin

He's not doing that. But he has been helping us more and more, and the softball knowledge he gives the girls and coaches is great. If you want to learn the game more, there's nobody better than him.

Mark Glushenko

We set our goals for this year before the season and we're not going to let anything get in our way. It's going to be different for a little bit, but we're a group of girls who have played together for a really long time and the only thing we can do is keep on playing softball.

Katie Grimes

She's played club volleyball and softball. She's our defensive specialist. She's very consistent on the back row. She reads well and is very, very quick. She has a very strong jump serve.

Lora Pate

In my opinion, we can out-softball anybody. But can we outplay them?

Kevin Bittinger

I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. The last time was in the service; pickup games in Vietnam when it was safe to do so.

Bill Porter

We're taking our lumps. A lot of it is just playing together and being outside. Softball is a game of timing and you can't get that from the Barnett Center.

Terri Holmes

We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.

Terry Stralow

Offensively, we are playing very solid softball - getting people on, moving them over, and getting the big hits when we need them.

Lloyd Hulit

Because she sees a lot of pitches, she can communicate that with the rest of batters. She loves to play the game of softball and that has rubbed off on her teammates.

Terri Sullivan

Our numbers are such at the middle school that there probably will not be a middle school girls softball team. And that's hurting our numbers at the high school.

Sam Harp

You can't talk to her about softball, she's not hearing it.

Chuck Sugg

I'm just wondering who they've talked to, to glean all this information that the Brewer softball program is bad. I would have thought that they would talk to some people involved in the program. I don't know how they could have made a decision, not having been here.

Don Corey

I'm so proud of this team. They knew there was still a lot of softball to be played and they've been through so much this year and built confidence in themselves.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Sue Enquist

I was playing softball, and wasn't playing baseball. I was on the bench in the beginning and I had to earn my ranks. I started to practice, went to the batting cages, starting running and lifting weights. Ever since then, I have been hitting either first or second in the lineup.

Jose Luis Rodriguez

I haven't been playing offense very well. Tonight, finally, it came together. [Softball coach Tim Walton] had confidence behind me and I felt that.

Brooke Johnson

Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.

Diane Ninemire

They honored themselves well and McLean well. Some of the situations they were put in, in that last inning, they played very mature softball and it was incredible.

Rick Rivera

He's been there a long time, so we're going to let him take it. He's got his coaching endorsement (certification). He's pretty well versed in softball, so we feel good about it.

Joe Warren

Our whole life was around the community, around the families. Ron's dad was our Cub Scout leader. He taught us how to play softball, how to bowl. My dad ran the teen lounge at the synagogue.

Ron Bernstein

We are struggling right now. We are getting better. It's the errors. It's fundamental softball. It's lack of focus. It's the defensive side that it's killing us.

Robert Dupler

It was nice to see them wake up. They were dead the first game. They weren't playing softball.

Theresa Carroll

High school softball belongs on the high school campus. The senior high students are already here.

Gordon Miller

There probably isn't a girl my age in Devon who didn't have him as a coach for softball or basketball.

Mark Lofthouse

[Our biggest challenge] is to stay consistent and improve game by game. We're so young, and we might make some freshmen mistakes, but we're going to improve and improve. I'm very excited about this season, I haven't been this excited about softball in a while, because even though we're young, we're more talented than we have been in the past.

Steve Cacioppo

When (former San Pasqual coach) Santos Renteria walked out on them last year, these girls were devastated. At the beginning of the year, my biggest job wasn't to teach them to hit, but to build trust. So we're about a year behind. We're learning to play softball pitch by pitch.

Oscar Chavez

There are simple common denominators in all sports, whether it's hockey or football or softball. An athlete is an athlete. There are certain athletic movements that transcend from each sport to another. Teaching kids to become aware of their bodies and their athletic movements is so crucial.

Bill Edwards

I hope we can use the momentum from the weekend, but three days is a long time for softball.

Deanna Gumpf

Obviously, we have a lot of local talent on our team, and it's a big benefit to coach in a good softball town. Recruiting-wise, it's exciting.

Jen Banford

Lauren has really burst on the scene in the county. I've been around fast-pitch softball for a long time, and I haven't seen a freshman come in and do what she's doing this fast.

Don Ellenberger

She's about to get one of the best facilities at any college. Things are definitely looking up for our softball program.

Steve Knight

We are getting ready for next season as most of the girls are participating in softball or track this spring. And that is a positive note because it shows these girls are committed to winning in a couple years.

Lorenzo Jones

I said I hope they're ready for me; I won't step back and accept mediocrity. I won't accept being the sport between field hockey and softball.

Steve Schibi

Take softball, for instance. They have to fund-raise for softballs. We don't give them any softballs. All the maintenance is done by one of the parents. Even the chalk, we don't pay for that. We don't pay for anything except the salaries, transportation and officials and we don't have enough to cover that.

Craig Ellingson

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

Michael Wolff

I have always played softball. I never played soccer before this year, but I liked coach Grant and I wanted to be part of something new.

Kallie Johnson

The one thing with this team is that they are a team. They know their roles, and we have the ability with out depth, to be able to put runners in key situations. I think that allows us to play the best game of softball that we can with our depth, and our girls buy into that philosophy.

Chad Slyter

I have been around this game for a long time. I have watched a number of talented softball players, but to me, Katie is becoming one of the best in South Florida. She is that good.

Stacy Bennett

The game was really close until we batted in the fifth. It could have gone either way at that point. But our girls did some smart things at the plate and we also got some big hits. Hopefully, this is the kind of softball we play the rest of the season.

Scott Graf

Brittany is really on a roll. She's been ripping the cover off the ball, hitting doubles and triples. And on defense, she and (shortstop) Willis have already turned two double plays, which is hard to do in softball. So she's doing good things on both sides of the ball.

Connie Hogan

We worked on everything. Infield, outfield, staying down on the ball, drop-steps. And everything with hitting, contact points as well as base running. We covered a little bit of everything. The kids got a good, round education this weekend in softball.

Shelly Schultz

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Yvette Girouard

You talk about Monroe County and you have tremendous softball. There are great rivalries, great players and great coaches.

Jim Zoltowski

I don't know why we've gone so long without having it. We're excited about getting it back. I think we've got one of the best softball complexes in the state. We're glad to get it back.

Gary Degooyer

Jamie is the epitome of what the award means. She is at the top academically, athletically and, in the community, has represented herself and her institution with great pride. I am very proud of Jamie for this honor and congratulate her for such perseverance and dedication to her career as a softball player and teacher.

Margie Wright

This year probably wouldn't have been as bad, but my first year here we didn't even get on the track until May (because of the weather). I hear how softball is always changing their schedules. Obviously it's a lot better that we don't have a meet here.

Enoch Borozinski

Weekends with friends, Friday nights, Saturday nights. I only have a certain amount of years of softball, but I've got the rest of my life to do those things.

Elizabeth Kaiser