Shooter Quotes

• I have never been a shooter.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Girl, New York, Cities

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• Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Shots

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• A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kindness, People, Gaps

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Taken, Being Free

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• I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

  Annie Oakley

  Love, Funny, Men

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• I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  Games, Play, Female

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• If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

  Jeff Cooper

  Judging, Police, Doe

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.

  Megan McArdle

  Running, Powerful, Gun

  "There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre". www.thedailybeast.com. December 17, 2012.

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• I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Balls, Hog

  "Kobe Bryant feeling fine in Philly" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. December 17, 2012.

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• I've never proclaimed myself to be a shooter. But I am definitely a scorer.

  Lisa Leslie

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• Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, America, Hands

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• Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

  Harry Morgan

  Men, Six, Insult

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• It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time.

  Ray Allen

  Consistency, Want, Way

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• When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces

  Theresa Grentz

  Pieces, Middle, Very Good

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• Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

  Janis Ian

  Mean Girls, Drink, Awesomeness

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• In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Men, Order, Police

  "The Real Navy Yard Scandal" by Charles Krauthammer, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me

  Sid Meier

  Fate, Thinking, Games

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• The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Religious, Simple, White

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  Jason Kidd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

  Joe Dumars

  Inspirational, Basketball, Thinking

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