Swings Quotes - Page 5

• There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.

  Tom Mulligan

  Golf, Practice, Movement

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• Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

  John Ashbery

  Morning, Sex, Boys

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

  Lloyd Mangrum

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Believe, Golf, Flaws

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• Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Men, Games

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• First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Attitude, First Love, Teenage Love

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers... over the sign atop the bleachers... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!

  Mel Allen

  Running, Yankees, House

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• Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

  Toney Penna

  Golf, Two, Three

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• Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

  Ed Furgol

  Beautiful, Golf, Practice

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• Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Dandelions, Cigar

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• The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

  Brad Faxon

  Sports, Cheer, Golf

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• Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Waiting, Steel

  Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

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• The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Baseball, Golf, Player

  Peter Jacobsen (1994). “Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories from the PGA Tour”, Penguin Mass Market

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• We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

  Helen Alfredsson

  Golf, Thinking, Trying

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• There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Games, Two

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• There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

  John Updike

  Sports, Golf, Balls

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.24, Random House

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• I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Thinking, Self

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• One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

  Eric Carle

  Thinking, Ideas, Next Day

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• Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Years, Tennis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

  Stan Musial

  Thinking, Hitting, Unbreakable

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• If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

  Frank Stallone

  Trying, Crosby, Gates

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• Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Simple, Discipline

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• You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green.

  Stewart Cink

  Balls, Clubs, Green

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• I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

  Dave Brubeck

  Jazz, Teach, My Own

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