Swings Quotes - Page 7

• Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Summer, July

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

  Bubba Watson

  Golf, Shots, Ifs

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• Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Hands, Balls

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• When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Play, Relax

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• No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Lessons, Mines

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• Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

  David Leadbetter

  Golf, Goal, Athletic

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• Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

  Eric Bibb

  Song, Thoughtful, Modern

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• When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Distance, Golf, Thinking

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• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Golf, Inspirational Baseball, Great Baseball

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• Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

  John Updike

  Dream, Regret, Moving

  John Updike (2012). “Golf Dreams”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Conformity, Pendulums

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

  Edgar Guest

  Determination, Ends, Depends

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• It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

  Robert Breault

  Father, Years, Missing

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• We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  "A William Ernest Hocking reader: with commentary".

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• Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

  Roddy Piper

  Wall, Kids, Wrestling

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• Frost is but slender weeks away,
  Tonight the sunset glow will stay,
  Swing to the north and burn up higher
  And Northern Lights wall earth with fire.
  Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,
  And yet the cold blue word is spoken:
  Say goodbye to the sun.
  The days of love and leaves are done.

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Goodbye, Wall, Sunset

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• I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible,
  But when I swing my swords they all choppable,
  I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper,
  Child educator, plus head amputator.

  GZA

  Children, Rap, Heart

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• And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Hate, Real, Artist

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• A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Attitude, Feet

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• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Senior, Autumn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• How do you like to go up in a swing,
  Up in the air so blue?
  Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
  Ever a child can do!
  Up in the air and over the wall,
  Till I can see so wide,
  River and trees and cattle and all
  Over the countryside.
  Till I look down on the garden green,
  Down on the roof so brown-
  Up in the air I go flying again,
  Up in the air and down!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Children, Wall

  A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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• When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Morning, College

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• He's been a top player for the last 10 years, and we all work on our swings, we all change things. We keep working and then we're trying to get better, and sometimes you get worse trying to get better. You've just got to give it some time, be patient for it to turn around, and when it does turn around, you feel like you can start winning again.

  Ernie Els

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining a good round. You should practice, develop your swing, and do most of your thinking on the practice tee so that when you play in competition, you can hit the ball automatically.

  Wiffy Cox

  Golf, Thinking, Practice

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• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Fall, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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