Swings Quotes - Page 13

• The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Moral, Awareness

  "Thoroughly Modern Lily". Interview with Alonso Duralde, March 15, 2005.

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• Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Sweet, Two

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

  Ty Cobb

  Psychology, Bats, Details

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• I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.

  Amy Poehler

  Stupid, Fall, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

  Rickey Henderson

  Trying, Balls, Way

  Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches.

  Bobby Cox

  Sports, Trying, Walks

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• McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

  Charlie Sheen

  Trying, Different, Shooting

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn’t amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

  Jack Johnson

  Opportunity, Ideas, Waiting

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Prayer, Sometimes

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1989). “The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952”

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• First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Political, Apathy

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• Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiring, Moving, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 23, 2012

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• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Doors, Leaving

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Laughing

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• I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Mood, Halfway, Known

  "Actress Ashley Madekwe Reveals Her Style Icons and Where She Finds Fashion Inspiration". www.glamour.com. March 24, 2014.

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• As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.

  David Whyte

  Moving, Home, Doors

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• I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

  Tom Morello

  Hurt, Children, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• "My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.

  Hank Haney

  Golf, Thinking, People

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• We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Knows

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• When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Mind, Balls

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• We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Waiting, Pendulums

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• I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Bats, Sheffield

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• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

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• Oh! death will find me, long before I tire
  Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly
  Into the shade and loneliness and mire
  Of the last land!

  Rupert Brooke

  Death, Loneliness, Land

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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