Shots Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Grandma, Golf

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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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• What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Waste

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Thinking

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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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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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• Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.

  Paul Runyan

  Golf, Beats, Whiners

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• If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

  Bubba Watson

  Golf, Swings, Ifs

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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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• Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Hands, Two

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• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Cheer, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

  J. D. Salinger

  Memorable, Games, Hot

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Archer, Crafts, Surprise

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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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• 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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• [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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• 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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