Archery Quotations

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why I feel obligated to watch them. 'Why am I watching archery at 4 in the afternoon?'

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

I actually started when I was 12 years old, that's when my home state of Alabama made it legal to hunt deer one month earlier with bow and arrow and firearm, and as far as exhibition shooting what got me started was that a friend of mine had an archery shop and asked me since I used long bow, which was very unusual at the time to come down and do some exhibition,

Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find what you need.

Over the years, as I traveled throughout the archery circuit, I saw there weren't high numbers of black or Hispanic participants. I decided to make a difference, to bring this sport to our neighborhoods.

I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

There is something going on constantly. Our season starts on Sept. 1 with upland game and dove hunting. Then, on the first of October, the archery deer season begins, which runs through middle of November. After that, we still have the upland game season going until the end of April. So, some days get pretty busy.

Ulysses known for his archery skills is taking on a whole army emerging from the gates of Troy on horseback and in chariots.

Between one-quarter and one-half million women have participated in BOW workshops. In some workshops, shooting activities will fill up; in others, fly fishing draws the most attention. Archery has become pretty popular. The interest really varies.

I started shooting out of interest in archery and there wasn't an archery range close enough for me to shoot at.

The thing about archery is that everyone can do it and everyone can have a good day at it. You don't have to be an expert.

And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.

Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.