With summer comes softball and it is time to find the type of summer quotes that inspire your softball team as they perspire towards their league championship. Great athletic quotes from the giants of other sports lend themselves well to the sport of softball.
When it comes to defining champions, let us start with these memorable quotes:
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." - Mia Hamm, Women's Soccer Olympic Gold Medal team
And while the nobility of teamwork is critical, there comes a day when you have to pick your team up after a particularly crushing lost. That is where this quote by Vince Lombardi comes into play:
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
As one of the most successful coaches in history, he was a man who understood what really makes champion athletes and championship teams.
Interestingly enough, Ralph Waldo Emerson, probably the person least likely to have concerned himself with summer athletics has a quote that cuts to the quick of many a softball player's experience:
"Do what we can, summer will have its flies." Ralph Waldo Emerson
This summer quote rings so true because a spring full of batting cage time and practice still cannot overcome the occasional pop-fly ball. Although in this instance his more literal meaning, that the summer, regardless how beautiful comes with a more pestering side effect instead of the actual fly balls of the summer softball league.
Likewise, William Blake is an English poet who never saw a baseball field, let alone a softball diamond. In spite of this, his general observations regarding summer are worth sharing with any athletic team.
"How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride."
Because it is the pride of summer that all athletes chase, seeking that glory, that moment in the sun that makes one truly feel a champion.
Finally, as we move into the summer sports season, never forgot Billy Jean King's athletic quote about champions:
"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
Never fear winning, it is what summer is all about. So don your softball shorts, throw your cleats over your shoulder and head out for a summer of grass, sun and the thrill of victory.
The author has spent a lot of time learning about summer quotes and other related topics. Read more about softball quotes at Shawn's website.
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