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For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

Jennie Finch

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Jennie Finch
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 3
Softball Player
La Mirada
California
Jennie Lynn Finch
Dream
Olympic
Young
Dreaming
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Olympics
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Sport
Girls
Started
Sports
Girl
Softball

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The attention I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me. It's nice that people are accepting beautiful women as athletes. It's encouraging to girls that muscles don't mean you can't be beautiful.
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It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
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The main thing is to win. You just try to keep your tunnel vision on to get the team the win.
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When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
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It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
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A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.
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It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.
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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.
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I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.
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Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!
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You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances you can always control your attitude and your effort.
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When I lose, I take it very personally.
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Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it.
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I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.
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I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
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The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.
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