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He finally realized that if he didn't swing at pitches off the plate, the pitchers would have to come to him. When that happens, he just kills them. You have to make the pitchers make adjustments, not the other way around.

Hell, who knows? ... Maybe even my golf swing will get better.

He needed that win. It is always nice to swing one at the end with a pin. Adam just needed that win since he lost 3-2 to the guy from Jeff Davis earlier.

He needed that more than anyone else for his confidence. This game is about confidence and believing in yourself. You're always going to struggle in this game, and when you swing better and don't get results, it puts doubts in your mind and that kills you.

He might think, What the heck did that guy just swing at? But he's not going to say it to you when you come back. I'm sure he's thinking it.

Within the last couple of months, she's really started hitting with power. We've been working on her swing all along and getting more and more into it and feeling more comfortable with it. Second, the conditioning program that she is personally involved in is helping her a lot.

We talked after losing the first game that positive people make positive things happen. We forgot about what happened in that first game and the kids battled in the second game. We told the guys to just swing the bats and be aggressive and they came through.

When he was on opposing teams, we actually used his swing to teach off of. Some of the things he does, we talked about for two years ... so we know his swing pretty good.

When he's making his pitches, nobody's getting a good, good swing and they're not hitting the ball on the barrel, ... I mean, he's beating them in, he's throwing his cutters and curveballs, and throwing the first pitch for strikes. It's awesome.

We've got to play a very good Detroit team, and obviously, we didn't swing the bats very well in the first two games (in Kansas City). So, righting the ship, that comes over a long period of time.

We swung the bats very good tonight. I'm glad to see the guys swing like this.

We told our kids the only way we can win this game is if we shot well from the outside early, because then the defenders have to come out. And then, if we swing the ball multiple times, the defense can recover the first time, but can they recover the second time? We wanted to try and wear them down a bit.

What you're seeing today is that swing back and forth. There's always a range of expectations, which means he'll (Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan) always disappoint somebody, and a lot of that disappointment was reflected yesterday.

What you really would have is a situation similar to when IBM was in full swing in Boca Raton.

He relates to players really well. Other coaches give you reps, but he breaks down your swing, the pivot, everything step by step. My swing has changed a lot. I'm looking for certain pitches in specific situations. I never did that. I used to see the ball, hit the ball. Now, I'm driving my back hip. I have more power than ever.

Guys figured, why be out on the road for three weeks when they could swing a hammer during the day, make more money and sleep in their own bed each night?

He's a good hitter and he's starting to swing the bat well. Whether the guy is struggling at the plate or he's hot, you always want to make your pitches because it can go either way at any time. If he's struggling, he's going to turn it around some time.

Her swing changed in a way I hadn't seen before. She quit turning and got steep. She stopped being a repeater, which is what she usually does better than anybody.

Heroics at the end of the game are great, but we should've knocked in those runs earlier in the game when they were on base. I've told the girls they can swing the bat against any pitcher in the league.

Here, the hitting coach said see the ball and hit it, and swing how you want to. That's what I'm doing now.

Golf is a challenging game, but the real challenge is to have fun. Dave's classes are designed to teach you how to keep your swing simple and improve and enjoy your game.

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

For me, personally, he's always shown that he has the tools to catch, swing the bat and do a lot of good things. But the difference is his confidence.

He's a kid who's struggled so much hitting the ball early. It's just been the last three games he's started to swing the bat pretty well.

He's always hit. He's a big, strong guy who has always been able to swing the bat. He knows how to play the game. He's a solid guy.

He's always been able to swing the bat. He's cut out of the Lemke mold. He's like the guys who play for the A's; they swing the bat and play hard.

He's got power; that's why he gets triples. It's not just his speed. He has a short, strong swing both right-handed and left-handed. He has good hands and if you make a mistake he will drive it.

He's kind of in no-man's land a little bit. He's early on breaking stuff and late on fastballs. Jim Edmonds is probably in the same zone. You've got to swing your way and fight your way out of it. You can't try to press, but it's easier said than done.

He's helped me a lot, talking about the swing and different approaches. It's been a big help -- just to be able to apply that and make a good pass every time. Even if I do make an out, it feels like a good swing.

He showed me those who came back without arms and legs. Sometimes, I was so depressed they couldn't get me out of bed, so he would pick me up and swing me around. He would taunt me and tell me to quit feeling sorry for myself. My focus was on being mad at him. It got my mind off my disability.

He's got the middle of the order guys behind him. Plate discipline and what you swing at is extremely important at the major-league level. For him to become a great hitter like people think he can be, he's going to have to learn to not offer at pitches around (but not in) the zone. This type of role will help him do that and understand that.

He's got the best swing on Tour. He's the best conditioned athlete -- I think he's surpassed Tiger -- and he seems to want it the most. The guy's relentless.

His numbers have dropped and he is probably not the best messenger to independents and swing voters, but in terms of managing an argument, he is good at it and his style lends itself to it.

His mechanics in his golf swing are breaking down dramatically. If he plays a golf course that is demanding off the tee, he has a real hard time.

Historically, six to nine months after rate cuts, the economy stabilizes and starts to swing in the other direction, ... But a lot of things are different this time. The Fed came off an aggressive tightening mode, and there's a global economic slowdown. It's just going to take a while longer this time.

His swing is intact. The hand-eye coordination is intact. The bat is ready. The other stuff, I don't want to get into.

His swing is getting tighter, getting better, and he's getting back to a point that he's dominant, which he's been this year.

His swing his getting tighter, getting better, and he's getting back to a point that he's dominant, which he's been this year.

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

He's got a beautiful swing and good power. He will be a good force for us in the middle of the lineup.

He's a total turnaround from (junior varsity) last year. He's around the plate and makes them swing the bat. That's all you can ask.

He's going to be ready (for Opening Day). I've seen how good his swing looks, I don't think that was ever a question. It was just his foot and staying healthy.

He's been a thrill to have. Sometimes guys say, 'well, it's time for me to move on with my life,' but he enjoys the game and he's got the rest of his life to live and work. As long as he can swing the bat, I think he's going to stay around.

The pain is still there. It goes from the lower back into my right leg. It started in my back because of my hamstring and it's still weak. I can't swing a bat and I can't even bend over for a ground ball.

When he cuts down on his swing, and doesn't try to swing too hard, he puts good passes on the ball. When he hits it, the ball jumps off his bat. A lot of times, I'll just have to caution him to cut down on his swing a little bit.

When they first told us about it, it was kind of weird to comprehend. But now that we're in the swing of things we really don't care. My mom probably likes it. She likes the warmer weather.

We looked at too many strikes and just didn't have the pitch selection (on Wednesday). Against Sacramento, we've got to swing at our own strikes and not the pitcher's strikes. We've got to be willing to swing the bats. If we do, we'll be fine.

We made some mistakes, but they just beat us. That's a pretty good baseball team. I'm impressed with the way they swing the bat. They cover all three aspects of the game.

He was dropping down and his slider was getting flat. It was staying in the same plane. He has to get it up high and get that ball to come down, so the hitters could swing on top of it like they were earlier in the game.

He was going to just try to ease one in there for Strike 1, and I saw it well and put a good swing on it.

He's playing incredible. With Chris' game I'm really starting to see how he functions inside that. His swing doesn't change on a good or bad day. He plays according to where his confidence is. When his confidence is up, he plays unbelievable. It's all confidence with him.

I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods.

He used all his stuff on both sides of the plate. We had a good game yesterday. We didn't swing the bats well today.

He didn't get it in as far as the first one. I just put a good swing on it. I can't quite tell you why it went out of the ballpark, but the pitch was in a good spot for me. It was in an area where I could hit it hard.

He can swing it like that if he is patient.

He (coach Mike Morgan) told me to swing as hard as I could and look bad on the first pitch. On the second one, I was kind of expecting curve ball so I was expecting something low. I got it down luckily.

He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.

He just missed qualifying for state. He's coming out very, very strong and even looks a little more solid in his swing than last year.

He just makes pitches when he has to. He's got that slider that sometimes looks invisible to hitters, but they'll swing at it. ... We've been calling him Houdini all season long.

He just keeps on winning. He's got a perfect body for a golf swing. When he's got his swing under control, he's always the man to beat out here. He's so accurate. I don't see him slowing down too much. He's amazing. He's 60, but he's going to continue to win.

He knew he had to go back out there. But he couldn't go back out there and swing at everything. He had to be patient.

He'll be fine. I'm one of a lot of people who think center is the easiest place to play in the outfield. You can see the swing and the ball off the bat. You get a true ball in center, with no hook or slice like you get in the corner positions.

He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of good things going for him.

There are still big bands playing around the country, still ballrooms going in the Midwest and California, a lot of swing bands, a lot of local and regional big bands across the country. The Glenn Miller Orchestra still travels around.

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

Kevin had a great spring. He started off slow, having a nagging injury, but he is starting to swing the bat well. He is seeing the ball well and centers the ball so well. Kevin is so strong that the ball has a lot of carry. He can just power the ball out of here.

I wouldn't put him in the five-hole if I didn't think he was (capable). I think he's got discipline. He's got a nice swing and I think he could be a very productive guy in our lineup hitting in the 5-6-7 hole.

Kelly's hitting carries us a lot. She's got the biggest arm swing on the team.

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Jose's going to get his stolen bases. If you get a good fastball to hit, and you're a good fastball hitter, I want you to swing at it, almost like a hit-and-run.

Joseph pitched well enough to win. We didn't swing the bat like we needed to, and we didn't make the plays we needed to behind him tonight.

I switched coach two and a half years ago and since then I've been playing much better. Thanks to Henri Reis my swing is better and it gives me confidence.

I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation.

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

I think it (Friday's report) is incredibly important from a market point of view. But I'm not sure that swing voters in rural Ohio are going to be into the non-farm payroll number.

I think it's been my work ethic. I've just been a hard worker, a guy that's always trying to be positive and put a positive swing on things sometimes even in the darkest moments. And I think people can relate to that being a blue-collar guy. My game is a blue-collar game. Three yards and a cloud of dust and get up and do it again. That's the way in the Midwest, especially Detroit, which is a very, very blue-collar town. I think people relate to that, as well as Pittsburgh.

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

It could go from a swing feel to a real primitive tribal thing and into some kind of chaos, all in one moment.

It combines flexibility, strength and endurance, cardiovascular and core all in one. If you swing it 10 to 15 times, your heart rate will elevate quicker than typical weight and cardiovascular training.

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

I thought we won the game because of great ball movement. That's how you play at the end of a game. If they trap you, swing it, and the ball kept moving until it found the open guy. You could see our guys at the end were getting into the ball movement.

I think the market has had a free swing at selling the (US) dollar and has shown to ignore a pretty good sell-off in the bond market.

I think the likelihood is that Harriet will be in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, something of a swing voter. She'd be far more in that mold than a conservative ideologue.

I think the key is going to be earnings now. We're really getting into full swing with earnings, and I think earnings are going to surprise on the high side.

I think their plan was to swing early. I think they just swung on the first pitch to get on base. I was always trying to establish my fastball. They tried to take advantage of it. But for me the key is throwing strikes.

I think the guys came together. We are starting to swing the bats a little bit.

I thought for an early, cold spring game we did pretty good. We didn't swing the bat as well as we'd have liked to. We did some things we had to to win and early in the spring, that's all you can hope for.

I think you're seeing it happen. I think everybody had doubts. I think he might have even. I definitely had doubts. His swing just didn't look as good.

I think winning that ballgame with only five hits gave the guys confidence to go out and swing the bats.

I think the game was lost in the (third) when we gave up five runs, then two more in the fourth. I think, if we had shut them down or held them to one or two runs, they probably wouldn't have been as aggressive as they were. But they can swing the bats.

I think the coaches already have a pretty decent idea of what they're going to do, but there's always a couple decisions that they're not quite sure of heading into that last game, and the last game, the way it turns out, might swing it one way or the other.

I think the biggest thing you think about Jaclyn is her ability to change a game with one swing of the bat. Thank God this year she's been healthier than she has the last couple of years. That's been difficult. When she's healthy, we have opportunities to use her.

It is good for us and bad for England. Because he was the one bowler who really mastered the art of bowling reverse swing at a good pace in the Ashes series.

I was a little bit worried about this seat, as you might guess, because Colorado has always been a swing state,

I thought we didn't choose very good pitches to swing at. We were anxious to hit and didn't make good choices at the plate.

I thought we did a pretty good job after waiting around all day to play. We came out and played hard and even though we didn't swing the bats as well as I would have liked, I was pleased with our effort. Once again, we pitched well and played good defense and battled at the plate to score runs to win the game.

I thought we played excellent and we had some chances but didn't quite capitalize. The game was closer than the score, but credit UCLA for making the play at the plate in the third inning and getting the one key swing of the bat to win it.

I thought we pitched well today and Blevins gave us his best outing of the year. We didn't swing the bats particularly well, but we got timely hits when we needed them. Of course, we are glad to win another series.

I thought we pitched two good games. We were able to swing the bats a little better and put some pressure on the other team.

I thought we passed the ball really well tonight. I like putting Jasper on the point because he can swing the ball and kind of separate the two guards on defense. He has such great vision that he can still get the (post) from up there.