Swings Quotes - Page 13

• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Balls, Forget

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• Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Adventure, Light, Eagles

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Golf, Chance

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

  Sergio Garcia

  Sports, Golf, People

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• As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Technique, Squat

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• The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Bags, Clubs

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• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Lunch, Looks

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• The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

  John Green

  Catholic, Voters, Hierarchy

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Optimism, Forever

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

  Bill Simmons

  Writing, Golf, Playing Golf

  "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Mean, Survival

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.

  Jason Dufner

  Baseball, Growing Up, Moving

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• We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas.

  Chris Jericho

  Men, Wwe, Ideas

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• At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Loyalty, Pride, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Tree, Victory

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Sea

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• One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Literature, Language

  Don DeLillo (1992). “Mao II: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

  Reid Hoffman

  Competition, Partnership, Economic

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Romance, Records

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• Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

  Jorge Posada

  Missing, Straight Up, Curveballs

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• I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.

  Nick Swisher

  Trying, Looks, Too Much

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• I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging at even more bad pitches and missing. It looked worse. But I was thinking about [the milestone], no doubt about it.

  Vladimir Guerrero

  Thinking, Missing, Doubt

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• I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

  Juice Newton

  Rocks, Stuff, Rock N Roll

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