136 Quotes by Jennie Finch

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

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.

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.

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.