Quotes About Shooting

NBA players made roughly the same percentage of shots from 23 feet as they did from 24. But because the three-point line ran between them, the values of those two shots were radically different. Shot attempts from 23 feet had an average value of 0.76 points, while 24-footers were worth 1.09. This, the Warriors concluded, was an opportunity. By moving back a few inches before shooting, a basketball player could improve his rate of return by 43 percent.41

You're what," I asked, "Catholic? Fascist? Both?" It just popped out. I was out of practice with intellectuals of the right—I couldn't remember how to behave. All at once, in the distance, we heard a kind of sustained crackling. "What was that, do you think?" asked Alice. "It sounded like shooting," she added, hesitantly. We fell silent

Iris and I turn to the shooter at the same moment. "Oh my God," she breathes as she sees the small, defiant figure standing there in the threshold with his arm raised and his gun still aimed at the dead woman. "Max?

That's not hunting," I wrote, "that's just shooting.

It was back in 2050 when Governor Schultz decided that all the Barrens needed was better lighting. At the cost of uncounted millions of nuyen, the city engineers—with Lone Star and Metroplex Guard units running cover—had installed high-intensity carbon arc lights everywhere they could get to safely. The residents of the Barrens had responded in typically warm Redmond manner by shooting most of them out.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

You will shoot, but you will not learn how to shoot in a CCW class. Rather, you will be given instruction on the law and how it pertains to carrying a firearm.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

A revolver, or "wheel gun," has a cylinder that typically holds five or six rounds of ammunition.

all those captured as children and returned were restless and hungry for some spiritual solace, abandoned by two cultures, dark shooting stars lost in the outer heavens.

The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself