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His power comes from his ability to make contact even though he swings the bat as hard as he can. That comes from working hard at the game, working all the time and finally getting to the point where you are comfortable with your swing.

Doug Ferguson

The guy swings the bat. I think everybody's seeing that now. He's obviously talented.

Lee Pelekoudas

It's easy to get to this level and try to do spectacular things, which we all do, ... It's been a learning experience this year for me. Being back up here, I've been telling myself to trust my hands, stay back and put good swings on good pitches.

Greg Dobbs

Our guys had some good swings with runners in scoring position. It was real important to answer after we came out a little shaky in the top of the first.

Greg Wakefield

It was just a matter of getting pitches to hit. Once we got the pitches we were able to put good swings on the ball and put up some big numbers.

Ryan Hastings

Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so many bad pitches, he expects a bad pitch every time. Barry is different because he will not swing at a bad pitch. But Guerrero hits bad pitches out of the stadium.

Javy Lopez

Through our first seven batters and their first seven batters, the score was the same (0-0), but they (the Lions) were winning the game because they were having better at-bats. After that, I challenged our guys by telling them they had to make better swings on the ball. They made the necessary adjustments, and I'm proud of them for that.

Jim Gilligan

There are many plans to build refineries, but with rising construction costs and a shortage of project engineers, expansion isn't that easy. Until this new capacity comes on stream, oil market swings will depend on the U.S. situation.

Hisao Sato

It used to be in pre-9/11 that we knew when we were going over the line. Now, it's impossible to do risk assessment. Authority swings so wild in the moment. How are they going to react?

Steve Kurtz

Tonight, we passed the ball really well. Our passing and digging allowed us to really get into our offense tonight. Consequently, we got a lot of swings and hit the ball well.

Carl Bone

It was a game of momentum swings and runs, and they (Flandreau) had the final run when they needed it. They stretched the lead, and we had to put them at the foul line ... but their kids stepped up and made big plays in those situations.

Bill Vincent

It was a good match between two very good teams. That's volleyball. The momentum swings back and forth. When you've got two good teams that hate to lose . . . you're gonna fight like that.

Cari Martin

There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen.

Jerry Wainwright

She is going to be probably the best setter we have ever had here. She's going to be real, real good. She already is doing some real good things. She keeps us in system and getting swings, and she can block.

Ben Stroud

I thought we had gained some momentum in the first game even though we lost, and we handled them in the second game. Going into the third game, I told the girls we have them. We were up and they were down. But it is just a funny game the way it changes around like that. The momentum just swings.

Mike Ciochetto

There's no doubt she might be the best hitter in the Classic 8 Conference. She hits the ball hard all the time. Plus, she swings at good pitches. She's impressive at the plate, no doubt about it.

Scott Graf

I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity. And I thought 'that about covers it really'.

Maggie Smith

Fears of interest rate-related mood swings in the U.S. market have been suspended for now, and that's a big help.

Hitoshi Ichio

The telecom equipment sector, and wireless communications, in particular, has very huge swings in relative valuation, depending on the comfort level that investors have in a company. The pace at which we believe the margin improvement will occur in mobile phones is not at the level that we had anticipated. On the infrastructure side of the business, we are still optimistic.

Alex Cena

He does everything easy on the baseball field. If you're not watching, you might miss something. This guy has the most natural, fluid stroke in the system. I would say he's a natural hitter with easy power. The ball just jumps off his bat. And he throws like he swings. His throws just carry. He has a solid Major League arm. He does things so easily, you don't know he's there.

Bill Bryk

The oil market is possibly at that dramatic stage near the end of a big run, when price swings tend to be very dramatic, and the euphoria and panic levels are at extremes.

Joe Duarte

The rest of winter in Indiana will continue to have swings from warmer-than-normal to colder-than-normal temperatures.

Dev Niyogi

We're a team that has a chance to be really solid by the end of the year. I think we're very talented. I think we're better at blocking and better at defense. But we lost a lot of swings on the left with Mira.

Jerritt Elliott

There is still a lot of uncertainty in the market and I expect to see big swings in prices depending on news coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.

Orrin Middleton

You've almost got to approach it like a state championship game. I knew the way (North Port swings) the bats, we'd better get as many runs as we could.

Charlie Smythers

Investors are unable to get a clear view on 2006 because there's so much noise in the numbers. There's the competitive environment in Spain, there's the impact from Kraft activities and there were currency swings. It doesn't in any way impact the progress made on the domestic product.

Thomas Russo

That way nobody swings on somebody else.

Thomas Baumeister

We are diversifying to other businesses to protect the company from swings in commodity prices and exchange rates.

Peter Muthoka

It has not been too many years ago that Preferred Care experienced a couple of very challenging years financially. Our experience with health care tells us that the financial pendulum swings both ways.

Tom Combs

There's some responsibility on a setter for a team that isn't a great passing team. I wasn't pleased with the sets Danny was giving the hitters. We just didn't get good swings.

Mark Pavlik

I really had the opportunity to throw the pitch I wanted to throw in the place I wanted to throw it. He has to come hit my pitch now. That swings the whole momentum in that at-bat there.

Dr. Tim Johns

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Edward Chapin

He deserves that chance. The way he swings the bat, I think he can handle it. His bat speed is tremendous.

Steve Noworyta

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

Vincent Cable

I just really like her voice. There's a certain intimacy to her singing that appeals to me. But she also swings well, and there's a bluesy quality to her voice too, kind of like Ella Fitzgerald.

Chuck Owen

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Robert Johnson

It's a stock which is not treading much volume these days, but it does move in quite large swings.

Grant Williamson

I had checked swings at a couple of pitches early. I got myself behind.

Preston Wilson

Early, we just smoked the ball great offensively but they were either line-drive outs or they would catch them and make a great play. But the guys didn't panic and kept getting their good swings off. I liked that most of all.

Smoke Laval

He's a hard-nosed player. He gives you everything. He has a chance to be a very good hitter for us. I like the way he swings the bat.

Chuck Burghardt

He's got to be more selective in what he swings at. And if we can do something with the lineup and position him in a spot that can help him learn that, then that's what we're going to do. What we're looking at is the major-league level, and (there) he's going to have to be more selective at what he offers at than he is right now.

Bill Geivett

We talked about that we needed to shorten up our swings. We tried, but obviously we didn't do a very good job about it.

Lamar Simmons

Georgia swings the bat aggressively. When she was getting ground balls we weren't making the plays. She did her best. Anyone in her situation would be tired (at the end).

Kristen Butler

He's been playing the last week to 10 days with some degree of discomfort. From my knowledge, the discomfort has only changed mildly. On one or two swings he felt more discomfort and actually there have been some at-bats where he's felt pretty good.

Todd Hutcheson

We hit the ball well (Tuesday), which is good to see. We had a lot of girls take some good swings, and it was up and down the line-up.

Dan Campbell

He takes a big cut. Something can happen when he swings the bat like that. He's red hot.

Thomas Berkery

A lot of it is being comfortable at the plate. I think early in the season we had some guys who were a little nervous, trying to live up to that No. 1 preseason ranking. Now we're shortening up our swings and making better contact.

Carson Kainer

Vandalism costs... cover items such as graffiti removal, broken swings, burned equipment and broken equipment in general.

Bob Ferguson

The neighborhood kids line up to play on the swings.

Mary Mckell

You pretty much get what you put into it. Somebody who swings faster is going to make the ball go farther, we all know that. He's just not getting something that he doesn't deserve.

Dick Rugge

We needed to get that lead early to build confidence. We were able to consistently put good swings on pitches.

Jacquie Joseph

We're going to become partners with the golfers in building their golf swings.

Frank Shaw

I think it's definitely paid off. We were meticulous in Spring Training to stay in our routines. From day one, we wanted all of our swings to be with purpose. We wanted to get off to a good start.

Derek Shelton

I tell myself every night, 'The season's not over. You've got to battle,' ... You can't dictate how many RBIs you get from where you hit in the lineup, usually. But you can dictate the batting average by just having good at-bats and trying to put good swings on it.

Chad Tracy

We put some good swings on the ball, but we were hitting it right at them.

John Batina

This is the type of business where you don't see big swings in position. But another way to look at it is that the market is very stable.

Haruo Kawahara

The difference is that we have wide swings in Alberta on revenue on royalties. We can pretty well predict on the tax side within pretty close margins what our income is going to be. But you would not want us to budget on $60 oil, so we use the best information we have from the best analysts we have.

Shirley Mcclellan

We have been focusing on hitting. (The coaches) have been getting them back on mechanics. We want to focus on quality swings instead of quantity.

Tom Rodriguez

Two of the biggest plays in the game were the kickoff return for a touchdown and (Boyles punt return), ... It really swings the momentum and takes the wind out of your sails.

Tim Stowers

Everyone agrees we need to take steps to avoid swings in exchange rates.

Oskar Lafontaine

I basically just told him that if we wrestle our match, nobody is going to beat us. Once we know we could beat him, that swings the confidence in our direction.

Jake Daum

I had a good par-3 on 7 and a double par-5 on 3. I had four bad swings. I didn't have any problems mentally. I had a 39 on the back nine, which was nice, pretty solid.

Trevor Mitchell

Pipeline prices are easing, but because companies weren't able to put up prices a lot when oil was rising, they may not cut them so much when the pendulum swings the other way.

Stephen Webster

We'll probably only have four days from the time they get back until we play a game. They are going to be taking plenty of swings to get their timing down at the plate.

Gary Graves

Megan pitched very well. We're getting our swings at the plate. Morris and Conner both are swinging well. It makes it tough on opposing pitchers if we continue to hit well.

Tim Ricci

Although short-run swings in firms' energy costs might be absorbed in their profit margins, a persistent increase is likely to be fully passed on to the consumer.

Roger Ferguson

The projected path of movement swings it away from Central Florida and then curves it toward the Panhandle by the time we get to Monday with a projected landfall roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans. That is the uncertainty we still have with the next landfall. But the path of Katrina takes it toward the Panhandle and well away from Central Florida.

Larry Mowry

In the middle of a correction, the market seeks to find a bottom and a top -- some kind of range that it can operate in comfortably. So you'll get wide swings as traders try to feel out where's the top, where's the bottom, where's support, where's supply.

William Mattison

Well, something that's crazy is he grabs my hands and I grab his, and we just swing each other around. Well, he swings me around in the yard.

Dan Blankenship

Patrick didn't have his best stuff. He fought for us, but he didn't have his best stuff. They put a few good swings, you have to give them some credit. They hit a few good pitches. And they just played better than us tonight. So they deserved it.

Corey Lewis

This man was accustomed to significant swings. He'd make big, he'd lose big. He was an active, aggressive trader.

Harvey Houtkin

In China, purchases from major consumers, including power cable makers, are still normal at this price level. Buyers are doing futures to hedge price swings and help reduce losses made on the spot market.

Wang Zheng

I had a legitimate strikeout pitch. It's a pitch I can throw and get a lot of swings and misses. I had never even tried throwing a splitter.

Tim Lavigne

Almost all of this slowing trend is due to the dramatic swings in Information employment in L.A. County.

Ryan Ratcliff

It think [acceptance levels] sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60s there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

Bob Saget

I know people think three days is long term in the market these days. But if you're a long-term investor, 2, 3, 4 percent swings, which are big moves in a day, are meaningless when you look back.

Scott Kahan

The one who swings the biggest bat on this issue is the mayor.

Nick Pacheco

We have to take care of the games against Dallas. These games against Dallas are going to be big swings.

Chris Albright

Rudy (Brown's nickname) was the key to the game. He was throwing hard, and was ahead of the count most of the night. Even when he got behind, they didn't have great swings. He pitched a great game, and really controlled the game.

Linn Williams

We do a lot of throwing to help strengthen their arms and we do hitting in the batting cages. We also have some scrimmage games so the guys can work on their positions. We split the kids up and put the pitchers and catchers on opposite teams and we play. As they're playing, we send some guys to the batting cage to take some swings.

Rusty Matteson

After putting good swings on the ball for six innings something good is bound to happen.

Tim Rafferty

Two or three more days and I'll be back. I feel good. I made some strong swings. No pain, no pain at all.

Yadier Molina

We will see high and low swings for the rest of winter.

Dev Niyogi

He's a big guy (6-3, 205 pounds) that moves around like a shortstop, yet he swings the bat like a big guy. He's big, but he plays low when fielding ground balls, especially for someone his size. He moves laterally well and throws on the run well.

Walt Weiss

As commodities fluctuate, underlying securities will follow... That's where they are going to trade for the next little while, as we're going to see volatile swings of this nature.

Bruce Latimer

The top of the lineup just battled all game. They took good swings and got the job done against a team that can really swing it, too.

Will Minor

Gay Brewer swings the club in a figure eight. If you didn't know better, you'd swear he was trying to kill snakes.

Dave Hill

We normally don?t get to practice outside in January, and our first tournament of the spring is usually the first time the guys see grass. I think this is a huge advantage for them because now they feel more confident about their swings going into the first tournament.

Tim Norris

If there are big swings in the future, it could have an impact, but there hasn't been any for now.

Hiroshi Okuda

It really developed out of a clear need to give guidance, We knew that there were too many swings in a set.

Scott Wolfson

I just had a couple good swings. [Costa] has hit the ball pretty good all spring.

Aaron Guiel

We all know Easley is not Gonzo, but he contributes, makes plays and swings the bat.

Jack Mckeon

He (Williams) did very well for us. He may not throw the hardest, but people aren't getting good swings off him. It really is pretty amazing that he has come all the way back from not making the team to being our most consistent guy. He has worked hard and battled to become a top-line guy.

Joey Sato

I feel pretty good, and we've still got a couple of weeks to get ready. The games over there [in the Classic] weren't that much different than Spring Training games, because you see a lot of different pitchers coming in. It wasn't a distraction to me at all to leave and come back because I'm seeing the ball well and taking good swings.

Carlos Lee

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

It's starting to warm up a little outside and I think our bats are about to come around a little bit. Our bats have struggled at the plate and that's no secret. So it's always good when it's warmer out because the swings look a little freer.

Greg Mcvey

That's a good team. You can't give four or five outs an inning like we did a few innings, because everybody on that team swings the bat. No easy outs on that team. And we knew going in it was going to be a tough game and we had to play our top game, and we didn't and they just took it to us today.

George Bridge

We did see a boost from gas prices, we're also coming off a big surge in building materials. So there were some big swings in some components of the report. But broadly, even excluding the volatile cars component, the gain was 0.7 percent, which is still quite healthy.

Michael Niemira

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

Nicolas Sobczak

Jason has the mental makeup and, to me, that's a huge part of it when you start thinking about double-jumping guys. It's 60-40 we will do it. It depends on the way he swings the bat in spring training.

Mike Arbuckle

You can't give her too many swings cause she's going to put the ball away.

John Presnell

He threw every pitch that he wanted for strikes. He threw it where he wanted, any count he wanted. As you could tell by some of their swings, he was on today.

Michael Cuddyer

I'm down 0-2 and my first two swings it looked like I was taking good cuts but I had no shot of hitting those balls. I think if I would have hit it, it would have hit my hands they were cutting in so hard.

Travis Lee

It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott -- there's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.

Bruce Sutter

I'm not a big squeeze guy; never have been in 22 years. But we'd been leaving some guys on and weren't getting good swings. We just gambled and it worked.

John Crumbley

There were no swings, punches or anything.

Sue Lewis

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

Charles Di Bona

He obviously swings the bat well, he throws well and he's pretty good at catching.

Jon Deeble

(Albany) swings the sticks pretty good, so we just had to match their intensity and keep battling and hope we came out on top.

Adam Witter

ASU is going to be another strong program for us to face. Having to play a single game before the NIST is good so we can keep our swings going strong. We are playing well right now and need to keep building each day. If you look at the level of play from opening day to now you can tell how much progress we have made in a short amount of time.

Steve Rianda

We've got him in there and playing outfield because of the way he hits it. He's made the adjustment pretty good even though he has made a few errors. But he's more than made up for any of that with the way he swings the bat.

Danny Schoonover

But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.

Heinrich Hoffman

It's just a tribute to his work ethic and his passion and love for hitting. He's a blue collar guy when it comes to hitting, there can never be enough swings for him.

Andy Nieto

You could see our kids were out of steam. In both of our Saturday games, we were trying to hit the ball really hard and trying to take really big swings. They were tired.

Alan Edmondson

The oil price has had its most severe drop in years. Meanwhile people are starting to wonder if this quick war scenario we are all anticipating is realistic, so we are seeing huge swings between asset classes.

Lex Werkheim

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist, ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Jonathan Turley

I was hitting balls on the range the other day next to her, and she swings it really good. She's a lot bigger than I thought. She has a lot of power. I'm excited about it and I'm excited about getting back on Tour. My adrenaline was pumping as soon as I landed (in Hawaii).

Chris Couch

We need to be more aggressive with our swings, ... But they are all things we can work on.

Beth Shelton

When you can score early, it takes away the pressure. We just went up there and got good pitches to hit and put good swings on them.

Craig Nicholson

We think by minimizing wide swings in their vital signs, minimizing a lot of their stress, we can minimize that event which we have very little to control.

Leonard Weisman

I played well except for three swings off the tee. My goal for today was 14 under. I got there but then I had a couple of bad shots.

Brad Bryant

We had out best guy going. I pay them a great compliment. They played hard today, played well defensively and put some good swings on the ball. They beat one of the best guys in the Big 12 Conference today.

Ritch Price

We always tell kids that the more pitches you see, the more you'll get to hit. Clint did a great job staying in the at-bat and driving in the run. The more pitches you see, the advantage swings to the hitter.

Todd Coffin

It's always nice when it swings your way. As long as it stays in the family, that's the main thing.

Pat O'brien

With the caution that this is inherently a very volatile set of numbers - especially in July when seasonal swings are huge - the reported results were significantly softer than expected just about across the board.

Ted Wieseman

Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.

Hiroshi Arano

The volatility that we're seeing is ... (because) greater than 50 percent of the activity is program trading. The swings are really violent.

John Spinello

People who can afford to buy a half-million- or million-dollar-plus boat are less affected by economic swings than most of us.

Tom Dammrich

We hit a lot of balls hard this weekend; we just it them at people. We know we'll get it all together. Our swings are starting to come there. We'll be fine. Just have to keep hitting the ball like we did this weekend.

Marquez Smith

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

John Hollyer

So, they're kneeling down on the ground of this playground. They're adults or teenagers -- mostly adults. They're not in the playground for the purpose that it was designed for. They're not on the swings; they're not on the slides. They're running an illegal dice game inside the playground.

Stephen Campbell

You're not going to have a diverse portfolio. You won't be able to ride the market swings.

Tom Grzymala

Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa.

Ashley Johnson

You can't have a pattern with him, because he swings at everything and he hits everything hard. Heck, I don't know. Sometimes you just hope he hits it at guys.

Aj Pierzynski

I'm real impressed with the newcomers. The pitching, I'm not just impressed with their velocity but their maturity. And what I like about some of the offensive players that are here is that they have good swings. From what I've seen, we have a good chance to be a pretty good team and win some games.

Gary Kendall

It used to be that when there were price swings, it would be half a cent a day. But now you're getting changes as high as 6 or 7 cents in a single day. That is very unusual.

Joel Miller

That was off the tee, light swings, pretty decent. But today is my second day, I'll do it tomorrow and we'll go from there.

David Dejesus

In this category you have swings of 30 to 40 percent in one quarter.

Kunal Kapoor

We had some pretty good swings from the top to the bottom of the order tonight.

Jack Leggett

A great civilization will bear a lot of abuse, but there are dangers in the current situation that threaten anyone who swings for the fences.

Charles Munger

It's still meaningful -- it's a sector that accounts for a lot of swings in activity.

Joshua Feinman

Good day traders don't have big swings or big losing days. A really good day trader is very conservative and picks his spots closely.

Edward Franco

The market goes through these bizarre mood swings. All of a sudden, people are concerned that we're in a soft patch and that it may get worse before it gets better.

Ed Yardeni

If the Fed doesn't raise rates, it's strictly for morale. Given the recent market swings, they're going to go ahead with the increase. There will probably be two more hikes.

Fred Peters