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.
Wyatt EarpThe most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.
Wyatt EarpFast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
Wyatt EarpThe 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.
Wyatt Earp