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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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Jennie Finch
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 3
Softball Player
La Mirada
California
Jennie Lynn Finch
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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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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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I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
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A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.
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College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.
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Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.
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To some Softball is a game to others it's Life.
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My family vacations were softball tournaments.
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It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
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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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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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I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.
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Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.
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When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
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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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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.
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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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You have been doing something that has brought you success, and you are in the playoffs because you have been doing some thing right.
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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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Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!
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