Shots Quotes - Page 37

• Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Home, Golf, Play

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• Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

  Johnny Miller

  Fun, Golf, Mind

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• As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Knowing, Mind

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• You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

  Mac O'Grady

  Memories, Golf, Games

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• I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

  Harvey Penick

  Basketball, Moving, Golf

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Balls, Holes

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• It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Appreciate, Firsts

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• I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Years, Games

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• If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Six, Assassins

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• It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Moving, Nba

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• I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Play

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• From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.

  Naturi Naughton

  Art, Trying, Weakness

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.

  Shay Given

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Dream, Hard Work

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The fun of being a supervisor is that you kind of get to shape the film as a whole rather than crafting a complete scene. I can't really think of one in particular that I feel like I own, except for a couple shots that I animated, which is fun. But feeling like you contributed to the whole is the most satisfying thing.

  Victor Navone

  Couple, Fun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.

  Bryan Cranston

  Ideas, Let It Go, Suggestions

  "Bryan Cranston Talks about His Thoughts on the Script, the Appeal of a Character-Driven Blockbuster, and More on the Set of GODZILLA". collider.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it's value to the audience and it's value to me then I'm going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Philosophy, Clean, Genre

  "Faster Stars Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton". ComingSoon.net Interview, www.comingsoon.net. November 24, 2010.

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• I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

  Stephen Curry

  Guy, Risk, Inspirational Basketball

  Source: espn.go.com

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• There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Gun, Years, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

  Nick Offerman

  Fall, Humility, Thinking

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

  Seamus McGarvey

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

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• I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes

  W. G. Grace

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• I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?

  Rachel Hartman

  Bows, Study, Quarrels

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• If you can't hold your own, you're gonna get knocked out. You're bleeding all over the place. There are many, many nights that these boys are crawling off the mats. They drop from body shots, their nose is just bleeding like a faucet. On Wednesday nights, they come in and get a beating. It only happens once with these guys. You'll get karate experts or Tae Kwon Do experts and they can't hold a candle.

  Tim Sylvia

  Boys, Night, Guy

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• So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

  David Letterman

  Yankees, Boston, Guy

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