“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Sacred Ground
“By the end of my PhD I could swing a sledgehammer.”
Beautiful Minds (2010)
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Derek Abbott (1960) Physicist, engineer
Introductory profile at The University of Adelaide
John Dankworth (1927–2010) British musician
Times obituary, 8 Feb 2010 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7018290.ece
Wynton Marsalis (1961) American jazz musician
http://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36024
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Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
On how being right-handed negatively impacted his chances of batting .400, as quoted in "Aches, Pains... and Base Hits" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W6lWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xecDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7036%2C4509721 by Jim Murray, in The Los Angeles Times (August 10, 1971). Also see the above comment (August 11, 1964) re "stepping in the bucket." <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
“I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
From "'Keep Your Eye On the Ball'; No, Not Golf, It's Babe Ruth," http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/13/page/11/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 13, 1920), p. 11; reprinted as "How to Hit Home Runs," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA29&dq=%22I+always+swing%22+%22hit+or+miss+big%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZzNH7oM3QAhWJ4iYKHUCwC8wQ6AEIFDAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20always%20swing%22%20%22hit%20or%20miss%20big%22&f=false in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 29 <br class="br">Context: I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, "You missed it." And believe me, it is no fun to miss a ball that hard. Once I put myself out of the game for a few days by a miss like that.
“My spirits rose: I could see the photon at the end of the tunnel.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 3 (p. 43)
“I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
As quoted in Go for the Gold: Thoughts on Achieving Your Personal Best (2001) by Ariel Books
Context: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball. In boxing, your fist usually stops when you hit a man, but its possible to hit so hard that your fist doesn't stop. I try to follow through in the same way. The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
“I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.”
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) American astronaut
The Orlando Sentinel staff (August 13, 1992) "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney", The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2.
“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.”
Zechariah Chafee (1885–1957) American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian
"Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919). (Various permutations of this quote have been incorrectly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.). <br class="br">" Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf" dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.