Shots Quotes - Page 32

• Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mind, Ems, Bricks

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• There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Men, Eight

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• The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Daughter, Son

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• A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Doubt, Mind, Cameras

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• I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

  Joe Frazier

  Cities, Boxing, Body

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• I'm sorry, I just did a shot

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Sorry, I'm Sorry

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• Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

  Moe Norman

  Hands, Flags, Sticks

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• I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation.

  Jay Haas

  Passion, Thinking, Games

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• The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Law, Commentators

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

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Small Numbers

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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 have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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