Top 280 Swinging Quotes & Sayings

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

I would get scripts about 'a young swinging bachelor on the make,' and I said, 'No, I've done that.'

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Few players hit the swinging forehand volley as often, or as well, as Maria Sharapova.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

I like the new, cool, swinging Justin Timberlake.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

When the ball is swinging, you really need to play close to your body.

Swinging a gold club is sort of a throwing action, and even as a kid, I could throw things far and fast.

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

Your longest drives will come when you feel you're swinging at 75 percent.

While I'm very into fitness, I'm much more used to swinging kettlebells around than my actual body.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

I'm comfortable swinging the ball at the top of the key.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.