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Anyone that can get elevation on their iron shots and get a little spin on the ball, that's the way you're going to get it close to these pins, i think that's the way I'm going to do well this week.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That was fun day, i still feel I left three or four shots out there.

– Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Chambers Bay’s a special course in that there are a lot of different shots to play to a lot of different pins, if you play the highest percentage shot Chambers Bay’s not Chambers Bay. But if you don’t know what [ the right ] shot is, there is a lot of penalty there.

– Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I feel like I ’m a lot closer, but I’ve been saying that for months now and it has n’t quite clicked, but these last five days I’ve had the biggest strides in my game. I ’m controlling my misses better and I ’m hitting a lot more good shots.

– Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We heard loud noises, my wife asked if I thought they were shots, i went over to the window and put one of them up. And we heard more shots being fired, and I turned to my wife and said, 'Yeah, that's definitely gunfire.'.

– Chief David Brown

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've always been challenged my whole career not to let made or missed shots affect what Valuable Player Stephen Curry do on the floor, it's not a good trait for any basketball player to kind of have your game reflect whether you're making or missing shots.

– Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It does help to see shots go in, and you start to build a rhythm and build momentum, everybody feeds off seeing the ball go in the basket and you start to feel better about yourself.

– Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I've got to play better, find better shots and be more in a rhythm throughout the course of Game One for us to really assert ourselves as a team, they've done something that maybe has taken us out of our rhythm, and we have to figure out what that is specifically. But I think we're still confident. We still believe that we're going to win the series.

– Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Andre is one of the smartest defenders I've ever seen, it's funny to say when a guy gets 44 points that the defender did a really good job, but I thought Andre did extremely well. Made LeBron take some tough shots.

– Steve Kerr

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The shots you see Steph make, you think the same thing as a player you would( as a fan) :' how does he make that ? , you might think they're bad shots but( they are not). They have a team built that way and they know he is going to take them.

– Anthony Davis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You have to expect the unexpected against him, i feel like I have done a good job of kind of weathering the storms, he always has some periods in the matches where he's on fire and hits some unbelievable shots.

– Briton Murray

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The real advantage is it would have a much more extended magazine. Today’s have five, six, seven missiles. With a directed energy weapon you could have thousands of shots with a gallon of gasoline – a gallon of jet fuel.

– Mica Endsley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think this would be a better surface for Simona Halep to play Serena, i think that it( the clay) defuses Serena's power. I think( Sharapova) likes that few extra seconds that clay allows her to set up her shots.

– Chris Evert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Working on the principle I've never pulled out of an event injured I believe I'll make it tomorrow, i was doing a gym exercise and it was a little bit unstable. I hit shots after the gym yesterday and after I went to bed last night it stiffened during the night and I struggled to sleep with it.

– England Padraig Harrington

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Whoever calls the shots can pull dirty tricks.

– Wilfredo Vargas

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At 0800 hrs GMT, a number of craft approached the Alpine Eternity firing warning shots and the master was ordered by VHF to stop, the master ignored the order and broke away from his passage and headed into UAE waters at the same time requesting assistance. At the point when the order was ignored and when the vessel changed course it was directly fired upon.

– Owner South Maritime Pte Ltd

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At 0800 hrs GMT, a number of craft approached the Alpine Eternity firing warning shots and the master was ordered by VHF to stop, the master ignored the order and broke away from his passage and headed into UAE waters at the same time requesting assistance. At the point when the order was ignored and when the vessel changed course it was directly fired upon.

– Owner South Maritime Pte Ltd

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I know I need to shoot something in the mid to low 60s to realistically have a chance, if you're hanging around the lead especially over the closing stretch here, anything can happen with 16, 17 and 18 so if I can get into that part of the golf course and only have a couple shots back, anything can happen.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's always exciting to be up there, but at the same time, obviously you look back at these first three days and I feel like I easily left on average three shots out there every round.

– Sergio Garcia

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realized we were under attack, which made us to rush out of the class, i then ?saw a man in a kaftan being pursued by a crowd across the open field who kept turning and firing shots at the crowd and then suddenly he exploded with a deafening sound.

– Tijjani Musa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This was my first final on clay and to come out and play a match like that, I am very pleased to have won, i had very few chances when I was returning. I was lucky to get a couple of good shots when I was behind in the tiebreak and hang on in the end.

– Andy Murray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Definitely the best I've played scoring?wise, i feel like tee to green it's been pretty similar. I was able to take advantage of some of the good shots I was hitting today. I putted a lot better. I think I made six or seven birdies there in 13 holes.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We just have a small community, i don't get why operatives take shots at each other through candidates. It should at least be subtle if you do it.

– Zac Moffatt

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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