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The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.
My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.
The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.
You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.
When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.
When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.
When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
Sometimes in a match, when things get tight, you want to feel like you can swing out on the ball and still have control.
Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'
We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
There's things in my swing that get bad that we try to change, but we can't just remorph everything and start from scratch.
If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.
Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.
My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.
I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.
I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
I'm understanding how to use my swing and working in the cage every day to repeat what I'm doing. Just not trying to do too much.
The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.