I have so far enjoyed my preparation with red ball cricket. The Duke ball swings a lot when you’re here in England, and initially, when I started playing here with India A, I realized that the swing will come a lot into play in these conditions.
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made – my swing is pretty hot.
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’ve done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have so many different combinations to try to get him to swing and miss.
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.
Sometimes I chase, but I’d rather swing at a close pitch than take it for strike three.
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
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 went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music – jazz, swing, Motown, pop – and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it’s got a good chance to go wherever – left, right, center – it doesn’t matter. But I’m not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I’m just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.
Swing is extreme coordination. It’s a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It’s about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
I started changing my swing in late 1999.
I would love to have a crack at Michael Bisping – with or without the gold, I’d want to have a crack at him because I respect him as a fighter, and he’s a tough dude, and I’d love to swing it out with him.
Sometimes in a match, when things get tight, you want to feel like you can swing out on the ball and still have control.
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
Most players I play with, I don’t look at their swing when they’re over the ball or anything like that.
I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country’s requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I’m confident we can swing it. But it’s going to be tremendously expensive – the infrastructure and so on.
It makes everything worth it; every weight that you lifted in the offseason, every swing that you took in the cage. When you feel like you came through for your team, and you see the joy on their faces, there’s nothing like it.
I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid’s swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
Some golf instructors get overly technical and teach the mechanics of the ideal swing. That approach didn’t work for me. So, I found a pro that didn’t insist that I learn Tiger’s swing. He accepted my physical limitations and improved my game by focusing on the minimal golf skills that I have.
All I really think about is, ‘Don’t try to kick the ball too hard,’ because a lot of times when I missed kicks, it was because I tried to kill it. I just try to think of a smooth swing, being slow and under control, and making the kick.
When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn’t really help at all while I’m standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile.
I rely on swing to get wickets, and I continue to do it that way. I have never tried to copy others.
When I’m really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side – from knee to hip to shoulder – is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn’t changed in 10 years.
Swing at strikes. You’ve got to swing at strikes.
You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.
The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you’re not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch – things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out.
I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It’s all that. So I’m born in the wrong era and I just don’t fit into the 21st century at all.
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to ’80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don’t make an aggressive move. You’d be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.
Here’s To Christmas’ is something I’m really proud of and I think it stands up as something fun, but something that doesn’t sound half bad too – an album to get everyone into the swing of Christmas!
I was away from the game for a few years, and it feels good to be back. I’m bowling quite well and also getting the ball to reverse swing. During the time off, I worked a lot on getting the ball to reverse swing; now it’s working well for me.
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren’t in full 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.
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
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.
Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
I’m the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I’m going to swing at it. Otherwise, there’s nothing else you can do.
For me, it’s different every year. Some years, it takes me a while to feel comfortable again, to feel like I’m ready to go. Other years, it clicks real fast. Sometimes, it just takes one game or one swing to feel like, ‘OK, I’m back.’
There’s a bunch of different ways to play the game of golf. You don’t need to play it one way. It doesn’t need to be one swing that’s perfect out there.
Bipolar indicates that you’re not – you don’t just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
If you break into an oil company and you’re able to find out what gas leases they’re interested in, that could be a multi-billion dollar swing in value for one company over another a multi-decade period.
I’ve come to love ‘This Country’ on BBC Three. It takes a while to get into the swing of it because the humour is very subtle, but it’s very beautifully done and there are quite a few guffaws to be had.
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while… if you keep on walking.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
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.
What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the ‘new’ ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up.
