Hitting Quotes - Page 16

• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  Ray Floyd

  Dad, Lying, Kids

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• My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.

  George Brett

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

  Edwin Newman

  Sight, White, House

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Beautiful, School, Past

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Still Wants to Get His Kicks". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.newsweek.com. November 14, 2008.

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• From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.

  Regina Brett

  Prayer, Real, Believe

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• She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

  Julian Critchley

  Political, Handbags, Politics

  Julian Critchley (1985). “Westminster Blues: Minor Chords”, Hamish Hamilton

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• You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Wall, Clever, Mistake

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Signatures, Sound

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Games, Two

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• America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

  Robert Pozen

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

  Dusty Baker

  Baseball, Player, Consistency

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• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  Laz Alonso

  Winter, Past, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

  Lee Child

  Commitment, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

  Jonathan Demme

  Taste, Remember, Young

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Wall, Book, Writing

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  Adam Garcia

  Girlfriend, Gay, Thinking

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• It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

  Krista Allen

  Self, Trying, Littles

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• I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

  Krista Allen

  Guy, Oblivious

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• Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?

  Waylon Jennings

  Alcohol, Drug, Bottles

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• I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

  Waylon Jennings

  Home, Alcohol, Drug

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• Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

  Russel Honore

  Apples, Heartache, Towns

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

  Alex Kapranos

  Party, Ideas, People

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Comedian, Mind, Notes

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• I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.

  Lee Westwood

  Tired, Mean, Differences

  "Leaner and meaner". Interview with Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

  Laurel Clark

  Couple, Space, Shifting

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