Hitting Quotes - Page 7

• But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments.

  Kim Clijsters

  Play, Trying, Routine

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• It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.

  Yanni

  Flying, Bumps, Flight

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• Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Wise, Mean, Player

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• The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.

  Jim McDonough

  Pain, Careers, Numbers

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• The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

  Hollis Stacy

  Golf, Games, Competition

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• I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

  Andrew McMahon

  Writing, Who I Am, Play

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• With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.

  Gideon Defoe

  Gold Teeth, Pirate, Sound

  Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.12, Vintage

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

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• Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Country, Men, Swings

  Harvard Law Review, June 1919

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• Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

  Butch Harmon

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

  Alan Page

  Football, Running, Games

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• The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Play, Nfl

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• With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Shoes, Space

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

  Richard Posner

  Diversity, People, Achievement

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• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away

  John Beddington

  Technology, Years, People

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• On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

  Vinny Paz

  Funny, Boxing, Legs

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• How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.

  Ted Kluszewski

  Black, Trying, Rooms

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• Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Reality, Race, Car

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• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Thinking, Historical, Violence

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• A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

  Bill Robinson

  Teaching, Perfect, Guy

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• Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.

  Connie Stevens

  Animal, Needs, Boundaries

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• To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

  Joe Hyams

  Mind, Relax, Target

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• If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election

  Steve Lonegan

  Battle, Election, Ends

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• Well, my dad (Ken Griffey) taught me that there's three parts. There's hitting, there's defense, and there's baserunning. And as long as you keep those three separated, you're going to be a good player. I mean, you can't take your defense on the bases, you can't take your hitting to the field, and you can't take your baserunning at the plate. But defense, is number one.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Dad, Mean, Player

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• The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Mother, Daughter, Drinking

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