Best Snooker Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Trying Sports Football Dad Madness Method Golf My Dad Tennis Cricket Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“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.”

Thinking Persons Play Felt Bits Type Handle Nightmare Take Me Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“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.”

Thinking Knows World Done Winning Successful Player Championship Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I like to play snooker, golf as well.”

Wells Play Golf Snooker

Author:John Terry

“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.”

Ifs Games Player Mets Losing Teenager Pool Basements Snooker

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“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.”

Ifs Kind Play America Games Enjoy Stupid Europe Balls Eight Nine Bars Canada Pool Crap Bangs Skillful Snooker Eight Ball

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“Snooker is just chess with balls.”

Balls Chess Snooker

Author:Clive James

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

Player Planets Snooker

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Ifs Shows Dog Britain Medal Cycling Great Britain Darts Snooker

Author:Jim Lampley

“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.”

Mind Country Moments Walks Twenties Thirty Wrestling Seventies Somewhere Else Octopus Snooker

Author:Mark Haddon

“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.”

I Can Courses Games Amount Findings Sight Tables Mess Covered Favourite Pubs Snooker

Book:It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman

Source: It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman

“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.”

World Littles Kids Blow Like Me Little Kid Snooker Guidos

Author:Pauly D

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

Sports Balls Chess Classic Rude Snooker

Book:Snakecharmers In Texas

Source: Snakecharmers In Texas

“Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.”

Tennis Sheffield Snooker

Author:Richard Caborn

“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.”

Persons Important Life Is Objects Important Things Love Of My Life Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

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

Men Kind Film Class Gay Pursuit All Kinds Working Class Gay Men Snooker

Author:Mark Gatiss

“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.”

Years Use Hands Age Left Legs Olympic Games Left Hand Snooker

Author:Ted Lowe