Amanda Scarborough quotes

Take it one pitch at a time. Take it one day at a time.
- Amanda Scarborough

This game is about the long run. LIFE is about the long run. Pick successes that can build your confidence over time and stay in the process. There is always light at the end of the tunnel, but you can’t see the light if you fall into the trap of all the failures trying to pull you down.
- Amanda Scarborough

The majority of players have to learn to be confident, just like players have to learn to throw a ball. It’s a process and it gets stronger the more it’s practiced. Even if you have to fake it to practice it, fake it until it becomes real. You WILL start to believe it.
- Amanda Scarborough

ANYONE can be on a team, but NOT just anyone can be a loyal leader who people look to and who rises above all the negativity and drama.
- Amanda Scarborough

The true definition of confidence has nothing to do with other people who surround us and statistics on a sheet of paper. The only place that confidence comes is from inside YOU. Yes, you. Our confidence belongs to us, no one else.
- Amanda Scarborough

Every morning we wake up we have a choice at how we are going to believe in ourselves. Too easily we forget, especially when we are in the middle of a whirlwind of a season, that every day we wake up is a new day, and you have a choice every morning if and how you are going to believe in yourself. You own that belief. No one else does.
- Amanda Scarborough

When you take the field or look at yourself in the mirror, YOU must be the one to believe that YOU are meant to do great things. YOU get to show everyone what you are made of and your love for the game.
- Amanda Scarborough

Realize this: We aren’t going to be perfect with our outcomes/results, in this game of failure we call softball. However, every time you are in a pressure situation it’s a chance to prove that you’re in the “perfect” frame of mind. The “success” and “failure” comes from being in the right frame of mind and giving yourself a chance to have success when the big moment comes; it doesn’t always necessarily come with the outcome, despite what all eyes watching might think. Results will come once the frame of mind has been altered.
- Amanda Scarborough

The only way you won’t “make it” is if you don’t have passion for something and don’t work hard enough at it – with all my heart I believe that. When you have passion for where ever your heart wants to take you, it drives you, it gives you direction and it gives you momentum. Let your passion push you to your dreams. Your passion is the driving force behind your energy and motivation.
- Amanda Scarborough

Passion creates work ethic. Work ethic creates possibilities. Possibilities creates happiness.
- Amanda Scarborough

Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have.
- Amanda Scarborough

Anything worthy of your passion should be worthy of your preparation.
- Amanda Scarborough

We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says ‘Emotionally, physically, mentally – come to the field prepared.’ Because if you don’t bring that to the field, you’re going to get beat.
- Amanda Scarborough

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, ‘If you want it bad enough, and you’re willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first, you have to believe in yourself.
- Amanda Scarborough

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
- Amanda Scarborough

Worrying about past plays is such a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Know what you need to do in that moment.
- Amanda Scarborough

A winner is that person who gets up one more time then he was knocked down.
- Amanda Scarborough

I think an athletes mental state is what separates he goods from the greats! Being able to have a short term memory when failure hits is a taught skill and should be something that is practice daily on exactly how you as an individual handle failure. In our sport failure happens far to often so you have to perfect bouncing back fast.
- Amanda Scarborough

Somewhere behind the athlete, behind the hours of practice, behind the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back.
- Amanda Scarborough

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
- Amanda Scarborough