Tad Williams Quotes

The bullet misses, the bayonet does not.

You can't not look cool with a crossbow.

I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

I've always been a shooter.

I'm a super good shot.

I'm accurate and I can land on anyone's chin.

Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.

HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

The sport of shooting is my life.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Archers are pretty focused.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

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.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

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

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

One must always shoot; always shoot, general.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.