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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

  Vance Law

  Baseball, Looks, Gloves

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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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• If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

  Paul Krugman

  Twilight, Order, Space

  "Paul Krugman Calls for Space Aliens to Attack Earth Requiring Massive Defense Buildup to Stimulate Economy". "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Baths, Hot

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• [Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.

  Michael Kosser

  Moving, Writing, Mourning

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• I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

  Tom Waits

  Riding

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• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  William Wegman

  Men, Self, Years

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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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• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  Eddie Mathews

  Hiking, Hitting, Balls

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