130 Shots Quotes to Help You Embrace Opportunities and Risks

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Famous Shots Quotes

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. — Christopher Morley

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. — Richard Kadrey

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. — Proverbs

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. — John F. Kennedy

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. — Wayne Gretzky

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards. — Bobby Jones

The shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always ready to step up and take that shot. — Ray Allen

HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy. — Shawn Michaels

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot. — Robert De Niro

I want to see you shoot the way you shout. — Theodore Roosevelt

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India. — Lala Lajpat Rai

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise. — Eugen Herrigel

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur — Janet Evanovich

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

Short Shots Quotes

  • I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
  • The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. — Chuck Yeager
  • Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. — Buster Keaton
  • And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. — Alex Cox
  • If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. — Douglas Adams
  • My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me. — Vic Fuentes
  • It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus
  • I don't like cheap shots, I really don't. — Susan Estrich
  • There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot. — Robin Williams
  • Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. — Jim Elliot

Shots Image Quotes

The most important shot in golf is the next one. - Ben Hogan quote

The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan

Shots quote Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! - Jeff Van Gundy quote

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! — Jeff Van Gundy

Shots quote You can't score a goal, if you don't take a shot.
You can't score a goal, if you don't take a shot.

Big Shots Quotes

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores! — Val Venis

Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched. — Sayings

And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven You may have every title, every big shot degree, But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem — Boonaa Mohammed

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill. — Method Man

Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. — Billie Jean King

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life — Marlon Brando

I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over. — Camilo Villegas

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out. — Eric Schmidt

The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies. — Phil Mickelson

Calling The Shots Quotes

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones

The nickname actually came from the first film that I shot the character that I play is called cosmo which the Russian translation to English is the nightmare. — Martyn Ford

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. — Manfred von Richthofen

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge! — Winfield Scott

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions. — Dianne Feinstein

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government. — William Colby

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot. — Jacob Latimore

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore — Bob Goff

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best. — Mariah Carey

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war. — George H. W. Bush

Cheap Shots Quotes

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. — S. E. Cupp

If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds — Bill Moyers

There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away." Bones to Cat — Jeaniene Frost

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted. — Roger Ebert

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide. — Phyllis Diller

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that. — Shaquille O'Neal

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive. — Arianna Huffington

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack. — Brian Skrudland

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. — John Hall

Shots Of Tequila Quotes

We should all believe in something, and I believe it's time for another shot of tequila. — Justin Timberlake

I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.' — Justine Bateman

Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time — John Walter Bratton

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people. — Anthony Bourdain

And no one drank just one shot of tequila. — Kristin Hannah

I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, "Tequila! It wakes you right up!" But no. — Kurt Vile

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. — Mark Z. Danielewski

I swear to you, I am the cheapest drunk on the planet. It takes nothing to get me loopy and doing stupid stuff. Yeah. Some of you like that? Well... like riding an electric floor buffer for a shot of tequila. Did it! — Bill Engvall

Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it. — Kim Harrison

This week it's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, toasted. And then, I'll put some salt on my hand like I'm taking a tequila shot and then take a bite of the sandwich. — Jessica Simpson

Hot Shots Quotes

The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. — Elinor Wylie

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning. — Shaquille O'Neal

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona — Rick Renzi

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes. — William Safire

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer. — Charlie Sheen

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

The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players. — Mel Daniels

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead. — J. K. Rowling

I'm very proud to be part of a cast that's gonna put Hot Shots on screen for the first time, Hot Shots are the first line of defense against wildland fire and these guys are so selfless, they are guys that do what they do without wanting any kind of attention for it. — Miles Teller

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun. — Irving Berlin

Shots Drinking Quotes

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved. — George Gobel

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. — George Bernard Shaw

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee. — Rob Thurman

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. — Winston Churchill

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price. — Steve Martin

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table. — Anthony Bourdain

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can. — Erykah Badu

I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?! — Doug Stanhope

Shots came, I don't know where they was sent from. Probably some bad hoes I'm bouta take the hint from — Drake

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? — Karen Marie Moning

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More 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

Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. — John Cena

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. — Steve Harvey

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes. — Grace Kelly

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. — Nikita Khrushchev

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. — Audre Lorde

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back. — Robin Olds

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it. — Hunter S. Thompson

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers

If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a short stop: Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot. — The Notorious B.I.G.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam. — Medgar Evers

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate. — Seth Rollins

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. — Thurgood Marshall

Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid. — Bernard Law Montgomery

When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. — Ray Allen

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. — Winston Churchill

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. — Wayne Gretzky

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. — Roald Dahl

One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again. — Alexander Rodchenko

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun. — Mitch Hedberg

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. — Satyajit Ray

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. — Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from. — Jack Nicklaus

Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot. — Anthony Michael Hall

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip? — Eminem

In Conclusion

Why do you need to read shots quotes? Because every shot, every attempt you make in life, is a stepping stone towards success. These quotes are a reminder that every effort counts, every shot matters. They encourage you to keep trying, to keep shooting, because eventually, you will hit your target. The benefits of shots quotes are manifold. They not only inspire and motivate you but also instill in you a sense of positivity and courage. They help you see failure not as a setback, but as an opportunity to learn and grow. So, why not take a shot at reading shots quotes? Who knows, you might just find the motivation you've been looking for!

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