Quotes by Swings 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 swings curves player Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. Beth Henley funny-things swings beautiful Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. Bette Davis swings grandmother nice We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing. Bill Crow swings special years At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on. Bill Gates swings running wind Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. Bill Simmons swings writing golf The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. Billy Connolly swings people thinking At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. Billy Sunday swings doors sports A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen Bob Brookmeyer swings skills song The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time. Bob Dylan swings emotional blood Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups. Bob Goff swings screw-ups dust What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch. Bob Goff swings needs You've got to be rich to have a swing like that. Bob Hope rich swings comedy I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.' Bob Hope swings pain golf When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming. Bob Proctor things-will-get-better swings good-times 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 swings bats sports We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches. Bobby Cox swings trying sports You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. Bobby Jones swings golf thinking You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch. Bobby Murcer swings focus thinking A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. Branch Rickey swings baseball men «1234567891011»
