Shots Quotes

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Fear, Example

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

  Michael Jordan

  Winning, Games, Careers

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• In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

  Mariah Carey

  Thinking, World, Knows

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• I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Allergies, Aspirin, Antibiotics

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• I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

  Claude Chabrol

  Hands

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• When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Sports, Balls

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• I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Baby, Husband

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Way, Months, Language

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hard Work, Class, America

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• Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

  John Huston

  Keys, Flow, Firsts

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• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Funny Golf, Great Golf

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• The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Golfers

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• When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Distance, Golf, Thinking

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• The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Four, Roger

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• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Cheer, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Waste

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• Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Might

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• I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

  Walter Hagen

  Mistake, Golf, Perfect

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• Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

  Don Herold

  Golf, Saws

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