Swinging Quotations

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.

When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.

I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

There are certain areas where we need to get better. Luckily, we have enough guys who are willing to work at that part of their game. We're playing pretty solid defense when our starting unit is out there. Our starting pitching is improving. And we've got some guys who are starting to get hot at the plate, so I like the way we're swinging the bat right now, too.

We started off slow. Male was getting good pitching and we weren't swinging the bats that well, but we got going later on and the hits started to drop in for us. We haven't played in several days and it took us awhile to get going.

Watching the girls go in the afternoon, we noticed (the ice) was swinging a little bit more. You can get more aggressive. It's nice to get aggressive because you don't have so many close games.

What they showed me today was a great job of having discipline at the plate. They weren't swinging at pitches out of the zone.

What a difference an offense makes. From day one we've been swinging the bats, and that was big. If we don't have the offense we have, we don't come back.

What a big hit. He's been a different player since coming back from the minors. The way he's been swinging the bat, you're going to get good production.

We're feeling good at the plate right now. A lot of guys are swinging it well and we've got a lot of guys that have a lot of confidence. We just started putting up a lot of runs. It's a lot of fun when you do that.

We're not announcing that the market is swinging up.

We know we're top-of-the-order guys and need to get on base. (Eric Chavez) is swinging a great bat. It helps to be on base when he's up.

We know we can't rely on scoring all those runs. We know it's great to have some guys that are swinging the bats well, and we're going to score. But it's not going to happen all season.

We know how good they are on the mound, and they've been swinging the bats of late.

We're still swinging the bats well. We're hitting the ball hard and getting hits at the right times.

We've got everybody healthy and we used a lot of guys today. We've got 11 or 12 guys swinging the bats well right now but our pitching is going to have to carry us from here on out. But we feel like we're in good shape for conference and I feel like we're as good as anybody in the state right now.

We were a lot stronger underneath this time and had the size advantage. We also were more patient and kept swinging the ball until we had an open look and then finished strong.

We'll see what Church can bring to us. He is not swinging the bat very well down there but you never know from down there to up here. We feel like these two moves might help us get going.

We accomplished what we needed to. We're really swinging the bats right now and a lot of kids had unselfish at-bats when the game was still tight. We had some walks and a couple of kids got hit and then the big boys knock them in. We just don't have an easy out in the lineup.

We did get some hits, but we left guys on base. We're just not swinging the bats the way we need to. But everyone we're putting out there on the mound is doing a great job.

There are a lot of good sticks out here today. Our guys are swinging great, and most of them are fresh to the course.

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

We've scored just two runs in the last 18 innings. We're not swinging the bats like we need to. We're not stringing the hits together.

We've scored 25 runs over the last two games, so we're swinging it pretty good. We've got some good hitters and we've got a good mix of older guys and younger guys. It all seems to work out.

When he is swinging the ball well, we are a much better team. His approach at the plate has been really good and that's the key to being a quality hitter.

We were contagiously all bad at the same time, now we're contagiously all swinging the bats pretty good. Baseball's a funny game. You can't figure it out. When it's good, you just try to enjoy it as long as you can.

We need to not do those types of things. When you've got your best hitter at the plate, and you're struggling to score some runs, we need him swinging the bat.

So far, we haven't come out swinging like we hoped we would. We just haven't clicked on the ball offensively yet enough to win games.

She was all over the place and swinging wildly. Mary has to be more patient when she's got someone in trouble and not get caught up in styles. We'll work on it and she'll be OK.

She's the one I never get on for swinging at the rise ball. Anyone other than her and I chew them out.

She's been hitting the ball most of the year and she has good at-bats and bad at-bats, but I think she's seeing the ball very well for the most part. Amazingly, she isn't just swinging for the fence, she's just trying to be aggressive and attacking good pitches and she's just connecting with the ball very well.

She's gotten real strong, and she's swinging the bat really well. She's going to anchor our infield this season.

She's got a lot of rise balls and people were swinging at them. I was trying to lay off them.

Omar hasn't been swinging all that well. He's hit a lot of pop-ups. I still think Omar will get more of the time, but it's going to be split up a little more, and I'll go with the hot hand.

She had a great at-bat. She's swinging the bat well and playing great defense for us as well.

She came through with a big hit when we got someone on base. The one hit on Katie was a slow roller, almost like a swinging bunt.

She has been just hot; she has been swinging a great bat. When we went to Boise, she hit line drive after line drive after line drive.

She brings a whole different dimension to the (No.) 9 slot. She's swinging a great bat in all types of situations. She's really giving us a lift.

Since we've been home, it's only been the one game where we scored any runs. We're missing out on a lot of chances and not hitting with men in scoring position. Everybody is frustrated that we're not swinging the bats better.

Since I left after coming up a second time, ... I've felt pretty good swinging the bat. My comfort level is 100 percent better.

She's a gutsy kind of performer. I really like her style. She does a lot of things, and if she's not swinging very well, she can drop down a bunt.

She hits her spots pretty good. We were down in the count a lot and she caught a couple of us swinging over our heads (on third strikes).

Most teams know Barry didn't play a lot in spring training. They want to find out how he's swinging the bat. The only way to do that is to pitch to him.

Megan pitched very well. We're getting our swings at the plate. Morris and Conner both are swinging well. It makes it tough on opposing pitchers if we continue to hit well.

My interpretation is that's my 'strike three' mechanic when it's a swinging strike. If you watch, that's what I do the whole entire game.

Obviously we're not swinging the bats good right now. And when you don't swing the bats good, it takes away from the energy of the club.

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

(Monday) night we struggled real bad without Josh Smith in the lineup, but we stick him back in there and we saw exactly what he can do and what he means to our team. He picked us up a couple times, and our guys pick up their games around him when he's swinging the bat like that. I was real pleased to see him back in there helping our team.

Morris and Cooper both hit the ball hard and drove in runs. Cooper has been swinging a hot bat and hitting the ball extremely well. Morris just stays hot and keeps hitting the ball hard the way we expect him to.

Obviously, if I move my wrist in a certain direction, I might feel a slight pain. But the way I'm swinging the bat, there's no pain there right now. I'll call that a step forward.

Obviously, Brandon pitched a phenomenal game. We obviously made some big mistakes in the eighth inning. But the big question is the bats. This is not Oklahoma and Mississippi State. I'm very disappointed with the offense. (Ryan) Campbell is the only one swinging the bat well.

Obviously, anytime both teams combine for 23 hits then you?re swinging it pretty good. The hitters looked very comfortable in the box.

Obviously a double play is not in order with the runners going, so as a defender you're thinking, 'Get the runner out,' ... When the swinging bunt happened, I had it my mind that I was going home, hoping that Pedro didn't get alerted that I was going.

Right now it looks as if we're pressing. Guys are swinging at a lot of bad pitches. And when we're getting a pitch, we're not doing anything with it.

Right now I think we're swinging the bat well. We're hitting the ball hard, just right at people.

Nick and John are very good with the kids. They teach them well. There not just getting in there and swinging the swords around. Fencing instills a lot of discipline in them.

Nix looks healthy. He's swinging the bat real good, this is the best I've seen him in a long time. Hopefully we can carry this through into the games. His lower half is a lot better and he's able to square up balls better.

I was impressed. The ball doesn't carry here much. The guys are swinging the bat pretty well right now.

I was swinging the bat well today. But it's not just me. We all are starting to swing it.

I was swinging the bat well in Chicago, had some good swings in Philadelphia but just not here. Putting the ball in play would be helpful. I just do something wrong and (the shoulder) gets a little sore. I take a bad swing, it gets a little worse.

I was swinging really well on the front nine. I was hitting it really close to the hole and was feeling it. I can't remember a tournament tapping in and knocking in 2- or 3-footers for birdie as often as I have here. That's always nice.

If we're going against a team struggling against a 'heavy' ball, a team swinging for the fences, we'll use Kate.

If we're gonna lose, we're gonna go down swinging and leave everything out there on the court. Some games it's gonna come down to the ball bouncing your way, but we try not to let it happen that way.

If we're going to go, we're going to go down swinging -- leaving everything out there on the court.

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.

I don't give credit to pitchers. He's going to have to show it every time. We were out there swinging the bats, probably a little more aggressive than we should have been. We swung at some balls out of the zone. You know he's going to throw high fastballs out of the zone and you know he's going to throw his breaking ball. You've got to be patient.

I'd like to get him going. He's had some success here. I'd like to get him swinging with confidence, because I know if Ryno is swinging well and swinging with confidence, we're a different ballclub.

I didn't change anything, ... They might have changed their approach. They were swinging at the first pitch.

I couldn't hit the ball to where I wanted to. Clearly looking at the scores, I wasn't swinging it very well and that shows on the card. It has been frustrating really. I got to seven under, which was as good as I could do. A good week, but it was a frustrating day today.

I can hit. I feel like I can swing the bat. I just feel like I can't run 100 percent. Swinging the bat is no problem. Just running.

I am enthused and excited to be named the honorary starter. Waving the green flag is like swinging a bat; it's all in the wrists.

I am enthused, and excited to be named the Honorary Starter. Waving the green flag is like swinging a bat; it's all in the wrists.

I am a little concerned we were swinging for the fences in our first at-bat with someone who'd committed second-degree murder.

I believe the way I see him swinging he may not need more than those at-bats. Now playing defense, that's something else. We'll see how it goes. We're not going to rush anything. We have more than a month right now to deal with it.

Batting practice is next on his agenda. But he's swinging well and making good progress in the last 48 hours. He's close to playing in a game.

I'm a little surprised I'm swinging this good after missing so much time,

I give it six months to a year before it starts swinging hard enough to bring tourists in so that (musicians) can make a living. I'm quite sure all of the musicians can't wait to get back to New Orleans and make that progress.

I felt perfect on the mound. I threw all fastballs. I hoped to get to throw some more but the hitters were swinging at the first pitch. But if I have to choose five pitches or 15, I'll take five every day.

I felt like I had to salute the fans because they were always great to me here and I know now they're just booing the uniform. They appreciated everything I did and how I played the game. I'm just disappointed we didn't come out swinging the bats better.

I felt like we came out much more aggressive than we have been at the plate. We were swinging at first pitches in occasions and I thought our offense really started putting it together.

I felt good. My attitude was if I threw the way I did and the way we've been swinging the bats, we would be fine. Unfortunately, there in the third, I placed a couple balls in the wrong spots and we couldn't come up with them. The game was pretty much even at that point.

I feel that we have a better lineup than we're showing. But we have been really struggling the last week and a half. No one in our lineup is swinging the bat well right now. I think some of the guys are trying too hard and good things are just not happening for us right now.

I feel like he's swinging the bat well. I don't want to see him out there at the plate, have three at-bats and maybe be a little tender and maybe do something a little different. We'll give him one more day and hopefully he'll be 100 percent.

I feel pretty good up there. It's fun right now. Everybody on the team is swinging the bat well. We always knew we could get on a roll like this, and, hopefully, here we go.

I feel so great out there, and I love being out there at my natural position. I feel like I've been swinging the bat really well over the past few games.

I did not have a good feeling coming into today because of the way they've been swinging the bats. Luke has really struggled, but he got his confidence going early and he gave us a big lift.

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

I don't try to force anything. I let the game come to me. They closed on me early, so I was swinging it out. And then they stopped doubling me, so I knew I could take control.

I expect us to start swinging the bats pretty good. I'm confident we're going to start swinging the bats better.

If the guys around him are swinging the bat well, he's naturally going to get better pitches to hit. Now he's been overanxious because they're not coming after him. We don't have enough guys around him swinging the bat really well.

I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.

He hadn't been in top condition lately, but he was really swinging very good in practice. I had confidence I could use him any time. I didn't have any doubt.

He has been the bull in the china shop. He has simply flexed his muscle and started swinging away.

He has been the bull in the china shop, ... He has simply flexed his muscle and started swinging away.

He hurt his wrist swinging in the world games. We're not for sure where we're at right now. That's part of baseball. He could've gotten hurt here, too.

He has played very well defensively at third base. He's swinging the bat well. He can add some punch.