Snooker Quotes

• Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

  Clive James

  Sports, Rude, Balls

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.231, Pan Macmillan

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• Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Perfection, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Snooker is just chess with balls.

  Clive James

  Balls, Chess

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• God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Player, Planets

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• The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Love Of My Life, Important, Life Is

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• My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

  Jon Richardson

  Sight, Games, Tables

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• I like to play snooker, golf as well.

  John Terry

  Golf, Play, Wells

  "Who do you like best, José, Avram or Big Phil?" by Oscar Witt, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

  Ted Lowe

  Hands, Years, Age

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• Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.

  Richard Caborn

  Tennis, Sheffield

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• My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Sports, Football, Dad

  "Ronnie O'Sullivan shies away from the limelight ahead of World Championship". Interview with Jeremy Wilson, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 16, 2010.

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• I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Teenager, Player, Games

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Thinking, Play, Nightmare

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

  Mark Gatiss

  Gay, Men, Class

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• I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Successful, Winning, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

  Jim Lampley

  Dog, Cycling, Darts

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• In a weird Snookers world, like me and Snookers would make the best, like, little guidos and guidettes, little poofs and blow-outs on our little kids.

  Pauly D

  Kids, Blow, World

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• In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Stupid, Eight, Europe

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Wrestling, Somewhere Else

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