Top 106 Snooker Quotes & Sayings

First thing about snooker, find a cue you're happy with. Then stick with it.

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

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

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

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

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.

Nobody worked as hard to make snooker a popular sport as I did.

I am trapped in snooker.

Snooker's got bigger over the last ten years, but obviously it's still on a really small scale.

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

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

No Alex Higgins, no snooker.

I want to be able to play fast and exciting snooker like my hero Ronnie O'Sullivan.

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.

If you are a single guy and work in a normal job you can get around it. But you can't win professional snooker matches when you are tired.

Snooker is a very good TV sport.

Anyone thinking me treating myself affects my snooker doesn't know what they're talking about.

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

Snooker isn't a sport where you can put on bulk muscle. It's about the cueing and the stamina.

How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.

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.

With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It's not like football, where there's a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you're talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don't retain muscle memory.

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.

The people in China love their snooker. We get a fantastic reception when we go over there.

I have always loved playing snooker.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

I have always tried to play the right way, and I honestly believe for the most part the etiquette in snooker is very good. So when there are breaches, and there are, it stands out.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

Snooker is not like boxing or football - you can go on longer.

I would love to bring it up-to-date and get some more people interested in snooker.

We play Snooker Legends exhibitions and there is never a spare ticket.

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.

Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.

Going into a tournament with 100 per cent belief you will win it - that's how I've always enjoyed snooker.

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

I just love playing snooker. Every single frame is different. Not one referee ever sets the balls up exactly the same.

Hopefully I get to the point where I get paid to party and can give up snooker.

I mean what's the point of them becoming professional snooker players? If there's not much money in the game, if there's no guarantee of future tournaments, if no one knows what's going on.

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.

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

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

I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn't practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

Maybe I could be the playboy of snooker.

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

My aim is to win as many tournaments as I play in but some people absolutely love snooker.

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

I have always wanted to live my life as well as playing snooker.

Golf and snooker are similar. They are ball games that you don't have to be super fit for. It's not like boxing or football when, at 35, you are on your way home.

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.

I like the golf and the snooker, too.

When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.

I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.

I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.