Quotes & Sayings About Missing Shots

The only shot I ALWAYS miss, is the one I don't take! — Wayne Gretzky

Stars are good, too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed, last night, I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me; then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. It was because I am left-handed and cannot throw good. Even when I aimed at the one I wasn't after I couldn't hit the other one, though I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into the midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could have held out a little longer maybe I could have got one. — Mark Twain

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots — Doc Rivers

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot. — Bill Walton

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

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base. — Joan Bauer

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

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what? — Michael Jordan

I miss all the shots I don't take. — Wayne Gretzky

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots. - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament. — Charles Barkley

I'm human. I'm going to miss shots, ... When I miss four (in a row), I've got to feel I can make the fifth one. — Raymond Felton

My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you. — Jason Kidd

Long shots almost always miss the mark. — Peter Lynch

You miss every shot you don't take. — Wayne Gretzky