Quotes About Snooker

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Clive James

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

Mark Gatiss

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

Richard Caborn

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

Jim Lampley

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

John Terry

#12. Snooker is just chess with balls.

Clive James

#13. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

Sophie McShera

#22. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Johnny Cash

#23. Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Rosalind Wiseman

#24. Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

Meg Wolitzer

#25. Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential!

Tony Robbins

#26. Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Blaise Pascal

#27. A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

Irving Kristol

#28. On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

Edward De Bono