#hitting

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#emotional #emotional thing #every #every second #hitting

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. ↗

— Colin Firth

#different #doing #going #hitting #idea

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#dark #dark side #earth #fast #glow

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything. ↗

— Carl Yastrzemski

#anything #first #first time #get #going

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#best #focusing #hitting #hours #lifting

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#between #big #body #completely #dedicate

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop. ↗

— Barack Obama

#folks #head #hitting #hoses #marching

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#hitting #pitching #timing #upsetting