Best Snooker Quotes

#1. Snooker is just chess with balls.

Clive James

#2. All mathematics is tautology.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. 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

#4. He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray

Phil Kaye

#5. Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.

Tammy L. Kubasko

#6. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

John Higgins

#9. 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

#10. It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.

John Higgins

#11. 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

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

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#13. I like to play snooker, golf as well.

John Terry

#14. 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

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

Jim Lampley

#16. Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.

Richard Caborn

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

Mark Gatiss

#18. I want to see the economy rebound.

Bob Corker

#19. Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Clive James

#20. Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Anita Roddick

#21. I've tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn't do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#22. And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

John Osborne

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

#26. Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

#27. Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

John Higgins