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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• The mind messes up more shots than the body.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Mind, Body

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Iron, Wife

  Dan Jenkins (2010). “Dead Solid Perfect”, p.4, Anchor

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• My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Giving Up, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Shooter

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• I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Believe, Men

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Missing, Inspirational Basketball

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• I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

  Henry Iba

  Basketball

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Badass, Bad Ass, Gentleman

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!

  Foster Hewitt

  Hockey, Wings, Canada

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