Shots Quotes - Page 6

• I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

  Groucho Marx

  Wall, Inspiration, Years

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• The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

  Cruz Bustamante

  Mexico, Jurisdiction, Seems

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• I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

  Shawn Marion

  Thinking, Hot, Balls

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• I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galile and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time... The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned.

  Yigal Allon

  Hands, Goal, Police

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

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Waste

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• I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

  Walter Hagen

  Mistake, Golf, Perfect

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• Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

  Don Herold

  Golf, Saws

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

  Tom Peters

  Long, Interesting, Risk

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Taken, Hundred

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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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