Swing Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old swing quotes, swing sayings, and swing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
The empty swing set reminds us of this- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time. Jacqueline Woodson
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. Wynton Marsalis
When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming. Bob Proctor
Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly. Nicholas Hope
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again. Austin O'Malley
A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes. Carol Mann
Swing will never sound as good as it did in the 40s. Trey Anastasio
The doorway to success swings outward not inward. Robin Sharma
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider
Swing a bigger brush you don't know what you're missing. Charles Webster Hawthorne
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. Bobby Jones
Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it. Bubba Watson
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. John Updike
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. Lee Trevino
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. Ben Hogan
If your swing was good enough to win one out there, it's good enough to win again. Your problem isn't usually your swing. It's your heart. Mark McCumber
Don't swing the club, let the club swing you. Leslie Nielsen
Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees / Swing, swing together / With your body between your knees. William Cory
The balloon of experience is in fact of course tied to the earth, and under that necessity we swing, thanks to a rope of remarkable length, in the more or less commodious car of the imagination; but it is by the rope we know where we are, and from the moment that cable is cut we are at large and unrelated. Henry James
What still alive at twenty-two, / A clean upstanding chap like you? / Sure, if your throat 'tis hard to slit, / Slit your girl's, and swing for it. Hugh Kingsmill
It don't mean a thing / If it ain't got that swing. Irving Mills
If age earns you anything, it's the right to rock the boat like you would an old porch swing. Joe Kita
Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Andrew Jackson
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. Katherine Paterson
Like they say, it ain't over till the fat guy swings. Phillies Catcher Darren Daulton
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing. Miles Davis
There is no place for doubt in the middle of a golf swing. Ranal Currie
You might want to step back. I think i’m getting ready to have a mood swing. Susan Gale
I call investing the greatest business in the world... Because you never have to swing. Warren Buffett