“I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.” SportsFootballGrewGrew UpMy FriendsActiveShootingThrowingPlaying Sports Author:Taylor Lautner
“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.” WarSportsLinesGreatnessMurderInternationalBreathingShootingThinkerMinus Book:Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents Source: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents
“I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.” ThinkingWantNeedsMeanHas BeensSportsSidesLosesTerriblePaperCourtPostsShootingScoreContractsPapersTeammateFree Throw Author:Andrew Bogut
“...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.” PeopleKnowsNeedsAsksSportsGunShootingHuntingAmendmentsSecond Amendment Book:Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns
“But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.” ThinkingWritingYearsTwoWholeThreeFeltSportsResponsibilityTalkingSummerGolfShootingBridgesFishingPrizeAbandonThree TimesCattleSense Of Responsibility Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMindFirstsWellsKindReasonThreeIndividualSportsHoursChanceFieldsExerciseBirdShould HaveBallsGolfShootingFishingWhere You AreOne TimeBeneficialFunny ThingsTrout Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower