Shots Quotes - Page 3

• You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Games, Today

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• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, College

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• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Block, Play

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• I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

  Ian Cawsey

  Hunting, Years, Vets

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Hunting

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• Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cancer, Two, White

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• I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

  Luther Lassiter

  Sports, Men, Missing

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• One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Taken, Hundred

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• I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

  Juli Inkster

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

  Larry Bird

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

  Butch Harmon

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart.

  Hui-bin Jang

  Hurt, Drama, Heart

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• Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

  Virginia Graham

  Games, Tennis, Luck

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• [During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Children, Men, Liberty

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• All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

  Mary Crosby

  Daughter, Mother, People

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• If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.

  Diana DeGette

  Gun, Numbers, Magazines

  "Democratic rep ridiculed for fumbling facts on gun magazines". www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Want

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• You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

  Terry Rossio

  Music, Fun, Powerful

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• I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

  Ramon Maria Narvaez, 1st Duke of Valencia

  Forgiving, Enemy, Last Words

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• I wonder why he shot me.

  Huey Long

  Wonder, Last Words

  Huey Long's remark on his way to the hospital following being shot outside the State Capitol (September 8, 1935), as quoted in T. Harry Williams "Huey Long" (p. 866), 1969.

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• There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.

  Greg Maddux

  Motivational, Baseball, Golf

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• On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny, Gentleman, Criticism

  "Schwarzenegger: No Country More Welcoming Than the USA". Address to the Republican National Convention, edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2004.

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• Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.

  John Cena

  Heart, Wrestling, Sacrifice

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• If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Practice, People

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I'm sorry, I just did a shot

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Sorry, I'm Sorry

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