Marksmanship Quotes

I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

The difference between a good shot and bad shot can be an inch to the left.

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

Obviously a strength of mine is shooting.

Bring every man a musket or fowling piece. Let your piece be long in the barrel; and fear not the weight of it, for most of our shooting is from stands.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

I can shoot.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

A sniper's primary goal is to eliminate ground threats for U.S. guys on the ground. Is that what a coward is? A person whose goal is to save the lives of his warrior brothers?

The American and his revolver have become as much a national association as the Mexican and his machete…. The cowboys are very poor shots. The best shots in the world are here in New York. They are men who have carefully studied the revolver and its charges from a technical and practical stand-point.

The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

I've been shooting all my life.

When I'm shooting things, I'm training.

Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

If you want to be a good shooter, you've got to shoot.

One must always shoot; always shoot, general.