Swing Quotes

• Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

  

  Ed Furgol
  • Practice
  • Ball
  • Damned

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• Big doors swing on little hinges.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Doors
  • Big
  • Swing

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • See
  • Three
  • Swing

• I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Mozart
  • Charlie Parker

• I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Explore
  • Push
  • Feels Like

• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  

  Gary Player
  • Golf
  • Legs
  • Swing

• Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.

  

  Lorde
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Swing

• I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Loved
  • Girlfriend
  • Swing

• I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Air
  • Missed
  • Swing

• Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Together
  • Intimacy
  • Rhythm

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • You
  • Enough
  • Swing

• My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Ugly
  • Swing

• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Comeback
  • Swing

• I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • You
  • Swing

• I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

  

  Count Basie
  • Band
  • Cutting
  • I Think

• 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
  • Time
  • Swing
  • Hurry

• 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Band
  • Jazz

• It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Time
  • Band
  • Swing

• If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Girl
  • Ways
  • Swing

• What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Define
  • Pitch
  • DIstracts

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