A Quote by Robert Byrne

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

Robert Byrne

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Robert Byrne
American - Author
1930 - 2016

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