Slumps Quotes

• To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

  Richie Ashburn

  Bed, Bats, Littles

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Done, Hope And Despair

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Coaching

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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• Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

  Johnny Bench

  Baseball, Bed, Easy

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• We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

  Kris Carr

  Powerful, Choices, Comfort

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• What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

  Frank Langella

  People, Written

  "Frank Langella - An Actor Matured". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.deseretnews.com. June 15, 1993.

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• When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Baseball, Losing

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• I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Winter

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Literature, World, Standing Alone

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Advice, Asks

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• Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

  Christopher Morley

  Political, Commodity

  Christopher Morley (1932). “Human Being”

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• There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

  Sandara Park

  Lonely, Giving Up, Felt

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• I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

  Carlos Beltran

  Hard Work, Ifs, I Can

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• The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be.

  Aaron Bruno

  Opportunity, Flames, Waiting

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• Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Lines

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• We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

  Jared Bernstein

  Wages, Trends, Midst

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• Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Creative

  "Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Credit, Way, Prosperity

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

  Chris Evert

  Victory, Firsts

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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  Kamisese Mara

  Confidence, Jobs, Loss

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2011). “Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• President Bush's approval ratings have taken somewhat of a dive. A senior slump, if you will. Leading President Bush to one conclusion: He is the only one who realizes what a great job he's being doing.

  Jon Stewart

  Senior, Jobs, Taken

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