Quotes About Practice

I'm still learning about my swing more. I continue to learn, with the help of my hitting instructors.

The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

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 played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.

It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.

I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.

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.

You take a couple of days off, and your swing is going to be off. I think it takes 15, 20 at-bats to really feel comfortable again.

I know I have a good swing. It's a matter of repeating it.

Some guys talk about swinging through the ball, but I think about impact like hammering a nail. My dad actually had me hammer nails to understand the concept.

Just got to keep going out there and keep swinging. That's all I can really do. Getting work in, doing everything I can to get ready for the game.

If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.

During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.