Shots Quotes - Page 2

• A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Small Numbers

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Golf, Player, Remember

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• Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Play, Imagination

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• I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Dog, Home, Golf

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• I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Games, Study

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• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  Nancy Lopez

  Sports, Golf, Play

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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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• A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

  Edward Hirsch

  Basketball, Kissing, Men

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.51, Knopf

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• Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

  Mehmet Okur

  Basketball, Fighting, Games

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• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  Jimmy Carter

  Boss, Want, Bigs

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• Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Mind, Four

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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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• 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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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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• If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Tree, Green

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.

  Takijiro Onishi

  Beautiful, Military, Men

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• While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Arrows, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

  Greg Norman

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Careers, Iron

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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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