Quotes About Consistency

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped 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.

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 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.

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.

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

I feel like there are a lot of positives in my swing. I'm really going to work around the rhythm of my swing, being able to keep my rhythm and being more consistent. Consistency is what I'm looking for, performance-wise.

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.'

When I was getting overly 'droppy,' that's when I was hitting shots left and right. That's what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn't drop the club as much.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

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

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

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.

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.