Wyatt Earp, a gambler (1848 - 1929), is quoted 10 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Gun, Fighting, Tombstone and Needs.

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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Wyatt Earp

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

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.

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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