Quotes About Swing

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There's only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address.

My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

Every kicker that's in this league has kicked a million or so balls. You just have that swing; you know what you have to do, and you go out there and do it.

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

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

If I have got a swing, I have got a shot.

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

From the rough, I'd use a 6-iron, play the ball back an inch or two and swing down on a steeper angle to catch the ball first. It also helps to aim slightly left and open the clubface at address. You'll get more height on the shot, and the club will cut through the grass more easily.

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

I don't swing with my knees. I swing with my hands.