Wyatt Earp Quotes
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
Quotes to Explore
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That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.
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No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.
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Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
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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.
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The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.
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My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!
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Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.