A Quote by Alex Higgins

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.

Alex Higgins

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Boxing Cassius Cassius Clay Clay Greatest Mean Snooker Want

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Alex Higgins
Irish - Celebrity
March 18, 1949 - July 24, 2010

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Floyd Patterson

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

Muhammad Ali

I remember that if you went down to the Crucible or other snooker tournaments it was all the snooker writers, and then all of a sudden when the game became popular on television it wasn't only snooker writers: it was what we called special correspondents.

John Virgo

I am sick and tired of Cassius Clay going around and saying he is the greatest and what a tremendous boxer he has been.

Terry Funk

I will give Cassius Clay $250,000 if he will just get into the ring with me anywhere in a combination boxing-wrestling match.

Terry Funk

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

Tacitus

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

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

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.

Judd Trump

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

Sonny Liston

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.

Judd Trump

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Northern Ireland as a whole is a great snooker country because of Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor and now of course there is Mark Allen. It's a hotbed of snooker and a place where our sport is always well supported.