Swings Quotes - Page 3

• People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.

  Tiger Woods

  Play, Ideas, People

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• Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

  Marilu Henner

  Brain, Balance, Energy

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• Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Fall, Eye

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Moving, Balls

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Golf, Practice, My Favorite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  Saku Koivu

  Team, Two, Giving

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• You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

  Barry Lyga

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Politics swings like a pendulum.

  Ed Gillespie

  Pendulums

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.

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• I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'

  Bob Hope

  Pain, Golf, Waiting

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• A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

  Carol Mann

  Mistake, Golf, Collections

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• The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Intellectual, Privilege, Opinion

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  Adrian Rogers

  Opportunity, Doors, Hinges

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• Swing at the strikes.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Strikes

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• Little hinges swing big doors.

  W. Clement Stone

  Doors, Littles, Bigs

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• You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

  Yogi Berra

  Running, Home, Timing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The gates made of light swing open. You see in.

  Rumi

  Light, Made, Gates

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• The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Judging, Balls

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• ...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Joy, He Man

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1382, Bantam

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• If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Minorities, May

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• Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Ideas, Liberty, Different

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• And I have asked to be
  Where no storms come,
  Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
  And out of the swing of the sea.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Sea, Dumb, Storm

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Games, Perfect

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