Quotes About Snooker

My dad was a coalman and was always playing snooker with his mates.

I love playing O'Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.

When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened.

You are never going to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not enough money in the game here.

I visited a couple of schools where snooker is on the curriculum. They go in everyday and play snooker. In the future, all the top players will be coming from Asia and the Far East.

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.

The way I play will change things, there will be a lot more attacking snooker in the future.

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

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.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be at snooker.

On one podcast, I attempt to antagonise and lose listeners by commentating on myself playing snooker against myself in my basement. Most people are baffled, confused, even angry about it.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.

Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.

People see the way I play and the balls I pot and then sometimes think 'how does he miss?'

The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

I think I was the most natural, charismatic player who ever lifted a cue.

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.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

Maybe one day there will be a snooker pin-up calendar if we all get in shape. I would be up for that, get some spray tan going.

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger, after Federer, because he's a genius. He doesn't like that nickname.